Comment on Linux on an 8-bit microComments−DanBC13yThat's impressive!I remember when "getting linux working on a laptop" was thought to be tricky.[1]ELKS was a linux distribution for old small machines. It was supposed to run on an 8086, and use just 512 KB (not MB) for ram. (http://web.archive.org/web/19990117003949/http://www.uk.linu...)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embeddable_Linux_Kernel_Subset)Wow, still sort of live. (http://elks.sourceforge.net/)[1] Here's a 2003 FAQ which gives some nice details of the problems people faced then. (http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Laptop-HOWTO.html)−TheBoff13yWell, getting Linux working on a laptop was more a case of exciting driver wrangling, rather than performance limiting.−iso8859-113yWhat does ELKS have in common with Linux? Will it emulate 32-bit for the user-land? If not, I guess it's not binary compatible. So ELKS is not Linux itself (FAQ says so) and it won't run Linux apps? I don't see how they're related...−idupree13yThe intro paragraph of that 2003 FAQ looks eerily like a comparison of smartphones/tablets to laptops might look today!−joelhaasnoot13yTried running this on a Toshiba T1100 Plus [1], never did get it working...[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_T1100−tmzt13yDoes anybody have a copy of the original ELKS homepage with the quote from Linus about Linux not being portable?It seems not to be in IA.
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That's impressive!
I remember when "getting linux working on a laptop" was thought to be tricky.[1]
ELKS was a linux distribution for old small machines. It was supposed to run on an 8086, and use just 512 KB (not MB) for ram. (http://web.archive.org/web/19990117003949/http://www.uk.linu...)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embeddable_Linux_Kernel_Subset)
Wow, still sort of live. (http://elks.sourceforge.net/)
[1] Here's a 2003 FAQ which gives some nice details of the problems people faced then. (http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Laptop-HOWTO.html)
Well, getting Linux working on a laptop was more a case of exciting driver wrangling, rather than performance limiting.
What does ELKS have in common with Linux? Will it emulate 32-bit for the user-land? If not, I guess it's not binary compatible. So ELKS is not Linux itself (FAQ says so) and it won't run Linux apps? I don't see how they're related...
The intro paragraph of that 2003 FAQ looks eerily like a comparison of smartphones/tablets to laptops might look today!
Tried running this on a Toshiba T1100 Plus [1], never did get it working...
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_T1100
Does anybody have a copy of the original ELKS homepage with the quote from Linus about Linux not being portable?
It seems not to be in IA.