SOME LINUX VOCABULARY FROM THE MODERN PC ARCHITECTURE COMPARED TO THE APPLE //GS ARCHITECTURE

PCI : Peripheral Component Interconnect
IDE : Integrated Disk Electronic
DMA : Direct Memory Access
ELF : Executable and Linkable Format
ISA : Industry Standard Architecture

The Apple//gs has 8 slots compatibles with the 8bits slots of the Apple//e.
I don't know if the 8 slots of the Apple//gs can be in full 16bits mode.
To make an expansion card you need a Printed Circuit Board printed on the two sides of the card.

The Apple//gs does not have PCI ports but slots.
The Apple//gs has an Apple SCSI card that has DMA.
The Apple//gs has the CFFA card that has no DMA. (Compact Flash For Apple//).
The Apple//gs has IDE cards (but I don't know if it has DMA).
The Apple//gs doesn't have ISA ports.

Thus some questions :

. What executable format do we see if we disassemble in 16bits mode an a.out program
compiled with GNO ? Is it the same format as an ORCA/C binary program ?

. Does the GNO kernel has loadable modules ? insmod, lsmod, rmmode ? a SCSI kernel module ?
a ISO9660 kernel module ?

. How to recompile the GNO kernel ?

. With what compiler do we recompile the GNO kernel ?

. Do we need a cross-compiler to recompile the GNO kernel ?

. Is the network part of GNO based on BSD sockets like Linux ?