[LinuxBIOS] Illumination books

MARTIN WOODHOUSE hokusai at btinternet.com
Sat May 19 08:34:21 CEST 2007


Hello  All ----
   
  Peter wrote:
   
  I for one would really love to see you port Illumination over to
Linux instead. While I realize it's designed around DOS and legacy
PC architecture I think a forward port is by far the cleanest
solution, and where effort is best spent. 
   
  -------
   
  I will take any step which may turn out to be necessary in order to get as many
  textbooks --- and of course other books of all kinds  --- written in Illumination,
  in front of the eyes of those developing-world children who need and will be using 
  the XO (and other machines) as possible.    That's my own personal commitment,
  and it is total.   110%.
   
  What that step should be --- with regard to Ilumination and the XO --- I hope to 
  discover by, among other things, talking with you guys.
   
  I have to tell you, though, 
   
  --- that it took me (working alone I admit) two years to write Illumination in DOS 
  using Borland C:
   
  --- that I shall be 75 in August this year:
   
  --- and hence that the word "deadline" carries a somewhat odd and literal meaning
  for me !   I am, thankfully, in good health overall and walk several miles a day, but 
  my own personal hardware systems are, shall we say, beginning to show a few 
  bugs here and there?
   
  ----------
   
  ( I can in any case do little about Illumination and the Third World without the
  support of at least one hefty institutional player on the scene.   And I have to
  tell you that, thus far, very little signs of such help have appeared, despite my
  having sought it.)
   
  ------
   
  Please take a look at my site,  www.martin-woodhouse.co.uk  and the
  downloadable presentation thereon, and perhaps offer me any advice
  you may think of?
   
  NB I am spending the weekend with my girlfriend and hence away from my 
  PC.      (She is sensible enough never to have looked at a PC of any kind.)
  I shall be back at my desk Monday lunchtime, though, and will pick up any
  email  or comments you may have straight away.
   
  Cheers, 
   
  Martin Woodhouse


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