Message-Id: <199705060826.KAA22478@grendel.sylaba.poznan.pl> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Mark Habersack" Organization: PPP (Pesticide Powered Pumpkins) To: brickman AT cjnetworks DOT com Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 10:27:24 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: OpenDOS Kernel sources finally! :) Reply-to: grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl CC: opendos AT delorie DOT com In-reply-to: <199705051706.MAA28754@topeka.cjnetworks.com> Precedence: bulk Once upon a time (on 5 May 97 at 12:14) Jonathan E. Brickman said: > > Well anyways I just thought I'd let everyone know. Maybe now we can > > talk about how much work it would take to get the sources to compile > > under a free DOS compiler like DJGPP. :) > > DJGPP plus the A86 assember might not be too difficult. Then > again, it's been many years since I did anything like this. DJGPP + NASM would be better. I assume you think about Linux 16-bit A86 AT&T assembler? Well, it's not documented at all and most DOS users don't know anything about AT&T assembler syntax (although it's better than Intel's IMHO) And compiling the sources under DJGPP is not a problem at all. The problem is to *port* the operating system to the 32-bit world. You cannot just recompile COMMAND.COM and several other utilities under DJGPP and expect it to work. COMMAND.COM uses dozens of hacks to talk to the DOS kernel, hacks which wouldn't work from 32-bits. The same applies to the kernel - have you seen the sources? If you have, then you know what I'm talking about. ------------ You're just a waste of time, you're just a babbling face, you're just three sick holes that run like sores, you're fucking waste you're like a slug on the floor, oh you're usless and ugly and useless and ugly, and shiver and shake when I think of how you make me hate. ---