[plug] Re: [Fwd: [FWD: A small TCP/IP/ICMP stack]]

[David Buddrige]

I did some (brief) research on elks - exploring it's potential for the
computer-bank project - I understand the elks kernel will run on XT's and
better...

Steven Blunt wrote:

> Great.  What does ELKS take to run?  I have an old 286, but it refuses to
> recognise the hard disk.  It can still boot a floppy tho.
>
> On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 07:28:54 -0500, Doug Loss <dloss at csrlink.net> wrote:
>
> >I hope I'm not intruding, but this was just posted to the seul-edu
> >mailing list and I thought you might find it useful.  ELKS is a project
> >to develop a small version of the Linux kernel for use (primarily) on
> >embedded processors.  I think the acronym stands for Embeddable Linux
> >Kernel System, or something close to that.
> >
> >Michael A Hamblin wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello there,
> >>
> >> Looks like subcribing to the ELKS list was a good idea after all, though
> >> it's really to early to say anything :)
> >>
> >> Basically this message below was posted to the ELKS list with information
> >> about a TCP stack for ELKS which is still under development. I have
> >> sent mail to the author to ask a few questions about what this small stack
> >> may be capable of in terms of running ELKS on XTs/ATs and using them
> >> basically as terminals. I am hoping that a telnet program can be ported to
> >> ELKS and possibly a mail reader such as pine and a text based web browser
> >> such as lynx in the future, though the latter are probably a little ways
> >> down the road.
> >>
> >> And, of course, we must make things confusing, so you'll note that both
> >> his and my user name is 'michaelh' :)
> >>
> >> --
> >> Michael Hamblin            http://www.utdallas.edu/~michaelh/
> >> michaelh at utdallas.edu      http://www.ductape.net/
> >> UTD Linux User Group       TCS HelpDesk (x2911, assist at utdallas.edu)
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:06:12 +1300 (NZDT)
> >> From: Michael Hope <michaelh at earthling.net>
> >> To: ELKS Mailing list <linux-8086 at vger.rutgers.edu>
> >> Subject: A small TCP/IP/ICMP stack
> >>
> >> Hi.  There was some talk a few months ago about designing a TCP stack for
> >> ELKS.  If anybodys interested, I've uploaded the latest copy of my TCP
> >> stack to
> >>
> >> http://www.pcmedia.co.nz/~michaelh/
> >>
> >> ttcp was used as a reference, but this stack contains no code from ttcp.
> >> It currently supports TCP, IP, ICMP (well, ping at least :), and can work
> >> over SLIP or PPP links.  It's still alpha software, but someone might be
> >> interested.
> >>
> >> -- Michael
>
> --
> Steven Blunt
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