From:	"Mark & Candice White" <mhewii AT home DOT com>
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Try asking in news:/alt.os.assembly  news:/alt.os.development
They are groups more geared tword OS development.

Making a segmented 32bit OS on x86 CPUs is not easy.
GCC and its dos port DJGPP are made for flat mem models
where ds,es,fs,gs,ss all point to the same mem, and cs is all so
the same phisical mem.

I was going to suggest http://rdos.net/eng/ but it is all in asm,
most likely because it is hard to find a C compiler that will
work in such an environment.

What is wrong with a near pointer to viedo mem?
With multi user &| tasking you will want to have the OS
send things to the screen(s) not the user, so having just a
pointer (near or far) to the screen is in the end a bad idea
anyways.

With paging and other protection methods used in many
OSes like linux, minix, winnt(most un*x), etc... you can have
multi user space without relocation of apps, and many other
things.

Stop in at the news groups I listed above and let us know what
you want to do. There is bound to be someone working on
something close enough to your idea who can point you in the
right direction. There will also be many who can let you know
about other options you might not have concidered.

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