Re: Using 286s for Linux-was Re: [seul-edu] RE: X-terminals

[Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:24:55PM +0000, Jeff Nelson wrote:
> As Ben Armstrong just mentioned, the ELKS project for Linux on 8086/80286 
> computers is not mature enough yet, but in the future might be an interesting 
> option... http://www.elks.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

I'm not too sure about the future of ELKS:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=56220

"Various people have asked about the
 status of ELKS. I think 'basically dead' is
 a good summary."

That report from Alan Cox, one of the two project admins listed at the
sourceforge site, is pretty bleak.  And that was back in January, and
the project doesn't seem to have moved since then.

Ben
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