From: SerDevian <scriven AT CS DOT ColoState DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: To any one writing OS in DJGPP.
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 10:21:08 -0700
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Mark & Candice wrote:
> > A friend of mine (NightTiger) is writing an OS using DJGPP.  So far,
> > he's got a flexible bootloader and part of a kernel.  He wants to soon
> > port djgpp to it so he can develop the OS while actually using...
> 
> What I'd like to propose is to get some of us together to make a
>  basic loader and small ~kernel for VM handling of real INTs.
>  with libc and such, to be used as a OS kit by us and others.
> 
> I think the hardest part would be to agree on the lowest level
>  of functionality to implement so as to let you go any ware from
>  it.

So far (the author will hopefully post soon...), the OS NightTiger is
writing has some of the things you mentioned.  It has a bootloader that
can be configured to do various things (but many of its functions aren't
implemented yet) like booting from any partition, and using a script to
configure other things or load the kernel.  His kernel so far pretty
much just does interrupt and exception handling with a minimal command
line to test things with.


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