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From:   McMeikan, Andrew [SMTP:andrew.mcmeikan@MITSWA.COM.AU]
Sent:   Friday, April 28, 2000 10:06 AM
To:     PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject:        Re: Linux [OT] on a PIC

Just a note that the ELKS list has been a little depressed lately.  So if
you want to build a small unix like device on a PIC emulating an 8086 ;-)
you might want to go look at http://www.elks.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ to keep things
ticking over.
seriously I don't think it will fit on a PIC, here's some info
The goal of the ELKS project is to create a Linux option for
8086 and 80286 class PC's
Palmtop Computers
Single board microcomputers
Embedded controller systems
Other old computers
ELKS currently runs on PC's. The ELKS kernel image needs about 200K and a
full running system should require 400K-512K

The 18C Pic's have up to 1Meg linear address space IIRC.  Still only an essentially 8 bit core though.

Mike