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ELLE Looks Like Emacs

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  If you like revisiting history, here's how you can run Elle on Minix. Download the minix image from https://github.com/davidgiven/minix2 . You can run the image in KVM. Login as root and run " elle file.txt ". # Install KVM and download image   sudo apt install qemu-kvm curl https://github.com/davidgiven/minix2/files/917987/minix-2.0-hd-64MB.img.gz -o minix-2.0-hd-64MB.img.gz gzip -d minix-2.0-hd-64MB.img.gz # Run the image in KVM kvm -hda minix-2.0-hd-64MB.img     Update software Compile the libraries, commands and kernel         a. # cd /usr/src         b. # make world   We need to update the bootloader as well.         a. # cd /         b. # mv boot boot.old         c. # cp /usr/mdec/boot .         d. # installboot -d /dev/c0d0p0s0 /usr/mdec/bootblock boot Now reboot.         a. # shutdown     References ELLE command reference Minix upgrade instructions