Re: Assembler or machinecode. Was Re: [colorforth] New Linux 4word

nondot.org/~sabre
look for the os development articles, theres lots there


On 4/13/05, John R. Strohm <[email protected]> wrote:
> Delurking...
> 
> I'll go for the simple boot sector.  And if you can throw in pointers to
> documentation on how to do a boot sector, and how to deal with modern hard
> drives at the lowest level, I'd be interested in that as well.  I don't have
> the first clue on where to go seriously looking for that stuff for current
> generation hardware.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Walton" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 8:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [colorforth] Assembler or machinecode. Was Re: [colorforth] New
> Linux 4word
> 
> On 4/13/05, Ray St. Marie <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 4/10/05, Chris Walton <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Haha, very funny Ray :)
> >
> > Thank you, I read it again and thought it came off as serious
> > flippant. Glad the humor shown thru. I'm only ever hahaSerious.
> >
> > > You know, I've written a lot of bootsectors and I'd be willing to
> > > write one thats a bit less selective about the hardware, and is a
> > > drop-in replacement for the colorforth one.(I've done the same for
> > > RetroForth 8 Native)
> >
> > Yes, I do know that you are brilliant, the reason i _know_ that i'm
> > atleast 10 iQ points behind the group AND can't wait to read your
> > code. :)
> 
> Why thank you for the wonderful compliment, Sir!
> 
> I talked to mark slicker and I want to ask a question. Would you
> rather see an elaborate bootsector written in Forth, or a simple
> bootsector which merely injects binary code that just enters protected
> mode right away, then passing control to code that loads from the
> disk, etc?
> 
> > Ray
> > --
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> > Ray_stmarieAThotmailDOTcom
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