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[sindi keesan <keesan AT SDF.ORG>]

> sindi,
>
>
> On 2016-10-09 03:36, sindi keesan wrote:

> > Try searching on baslinux, my name (keesan) compile and kernel.
>
>
> I am not sure what you mean - the https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/baslinux 
> archives are not searchable.  I had a look at http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl 
> but that didn't help much . .

At the baslinux ibiblio site is a link to help, which besides letting you 
sign up for the mail list has a Searching the Archive.  Fill in the terms 
you are after where it says xxx.   This does a google search for you.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/baslin.htm


> > Kernels compile rather slowly on a 486.
>
>
> Isn't it possible to cross-compile on my big Fedora 25 workstation?

Yes, I was just commenting that I used to compile on a 486.

> > My first BL computer had 12MB
> > RAM (around 1999).  We were big on modem support then.  I used a 486
> > laptop as a terminal (running programs on a speedy Pentium II,
> > displaying on the 486 in VGA resolution).
>
>
> About that time I had set up a small insurance company running a lot of 
> floppy-booted Linux PCs that would get X etc from a server - they worked 
> quite well as terminals / X servers - I should work out how I did that again 
> . . after that exercise we went to commercial thin clients running X.

Stephen explained how to do this with BL. 
Also how to share a modem connection.

> OK!
>
> BTW, Pricom used to produce a DOS-based Scientific / Multilingual WP 
> (including Cyrillic character sets) - which worked in "character graphics" 
> mode (8*16 pixels) on EGA and VGA screens.  I still have all the code and it 
> works in dosemu etc from memory - I can show you some screen captures if you 
> like.

I once designed a lambda for my 9-pin printer.   I think also something 
for the screen.  No need for screen captures.

I wonder if anyone else is still reading this mail list.

> Regards,
>
> Phil.
> --
> Philip Rhoades
>
> PO Box 896
> Cowra  NSW  2794
> Australia
> E-mail:  phil AT pricom.com.au

Sindi Keesan