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Hi,

Well I've tidied my loose ends, done some documentation and updated my web site. Finally everything is "ready enough" for my first public OS demo

The address is:
http://www.users.bigpond.com/sacabling/

I still feel a little silly asking people to test it so early as I've only just started the kernel rewrite (even though my boot code is large/complex).

Please be warned that setting the time via. the boot menu will change the RTC time. Other than this it should be impossible for it to effect anything else (e.g. it won't wipe your hard-drive).

You should end up with a blue screen containing the boot log with memory usage statistics down the bottom (that's as far as it goes for now).

Minimum requirements are an 80486 with 2 Mb of memory, a VGA video card and a floppy disk drive. It should handle SMP, NUMA, hyperthreading, all LFB video modes, etc (I'm especially interested in NUMA and/or hyperthreading test results if anyone's lucky enough to have the gear).

I'm also looking for comments/criticism on both the OS and my web site/documentation - anything you can think of to improve anything, or anything that needs futher explanation. Please don't hold back - if you think it's a pile of dung say so (but perhaps mention why too ).


Thanks,

Brendan

Well, it works on a P4 2.4, 256MB ram with 1 logical CPU. Cool boot menu...

Athlon-XP, NForce2, Geforce 2MX.

No problems as far as I can see.

It all looks very nice indeed, I'll keep an eye out for your next test.

Hi,

Thanks durand and Curufir.

The next test will be after I've got the scheduler and messaging working, which will take a while (a couple months). After that I'll be able to "port" software from the previous version to it and it'll expand much quicker


Thanks,

Brendan

boots and executes fine under vmware 4.5.1

below is a screenie of BCOS in action. I'm looking forward to the next release. Looks very fine.