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From: "Alaric B. Williams" <alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com, Christopher Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 00:02:17 +0000
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Subject: Re: Virtual 86 mode (DOS boxes in 32 bit systems)
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> Someone is bound to say "why put it on top of DOS instead of having
> its own OS?", so I'll answer it.  A lot of the problems developing an 
> OS is that you have to have a lot of the work done before you can
> even test it - video and keyboard drivers, disk drivers, etc.

Not necessarily true - the University of Utah produce something 
called the Flux toolkit, which is a set of C libraries providing 
bootstrap code, CPU control, drivers for important things... they're 
made from the Linux kernel sources, so if Linux supports it, the Flux 
toolkit probably will to!

> Thanks,
>     Chris C

ABW
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