Re: What is ELF?

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From: Mark H. North
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 00:00

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kosowsky@bellini.harvard.edu (Jeffrey J. Kosowsky) writes:

>In article <3qg5sf$4gh@nyx10.cs.du.edu> pwayne@aol.com (Peter M. Wayne) writes:
>>    Can anyone explain me what is ELF? How does it work? What are its
>>   advantages?  Please post, we have a size limit on our mailfolder.

>I recall that ELF was the name for a single board 6502 based
>microcomputer whose schematics were first published in Popular
>Electronics back in about 1978? I think that a kit was then sold by a
>company called Newport Electronics.  It was programmed of course in
>machine code -- I'm not sure whether a BASIC interpreter was even
>available.  Anyway, I almost bought one, but as a high school kid I
>could not afford the <$200 price tag.  I did dream about buying one
>though...

>Just thought that I would share this piece of nostalgia, since just
>about every other usage of ELF has been mentioned. Anybody else
>remember this distant ancestor of today's PC's?

Yep. Mine is in the overhead of my garage. It still works too. It has
all of 256 bytes of ram. I once figured it would cost >$3000 to
fill out the address space with 64K ram if I had to pay for all of it
what I paid for the 256 bytes. 

Mark

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From: north@nosc.mil (Mark H. North)
Subject: Re: What is ELF?
Date: 1995/06/07
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