From:	kurt AT deepsouth DOT co DOT nz (Kurt Hausler)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Any one writing OS in DJGPP? (reply, NightTiger...)
Date:	30 Jan 1997 07:14:30 GMT
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In article <32EA9DBA DOT AF0 AT cam DOT org>
Tudor <tudor AT cam DOT org> writes:

> I'm really interested and curious about OS developing.I'd like to do
> stuff like this as a hobby.But I have no ideea about the basics of OS
> developing.ie. how to create software interupts and so.
> Are there any tutorials I could read? How can I find out more about
> this?

Now, I think that executables created with djgpp require a DPMI server
and this DPMI server requires MS-DOS or similar.  So how do we write a
simple, 32 bit executable that doesn't make calls to DPMI functions. 
Because that is what is needed to write an OS?, Right?  

Thanks

Kurt Confused Hausler

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