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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!news0.cybernetics.net!hermes.cybernetics.net!james From: james@hermes.cybernetics.net (James Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Info on OS dev? Date: 11 Feb 1995 21:13:48 GMT Organization: Robinson Consulting Lines: 24 Sender: james@hermes.cybernetics.net (James Robinson) Message-ID: <3hj9ac$mna@news0.cybernetics.net> References: <1995Feb11.093635.33911@ac.dal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: hermes.cybernetics.net Well, for starters, there's the book "The Design and Implementation of BSD 4.3" by Leffler et al. For code examples, there are FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, and even the 386BSD CD-ROM with annotations in a Windows-only format (would someone who bought that thing speak up as to how the notes really are?). Archie will tell you where all of those things live. For Windows emulation, there is a group of developers producing a tool called "Wine" that will be a replacement for the Win16 API for the above OSs. The latest snapshot of the code was quite impressive [but then, all I ever did under Windows was play Pipe Dream, and Wine does this beautifully :)]. As for DOS, Linux has a tool called dosemu which is able to run DOS pretty well, as far as I've heard. I works on Linux only, though, due to the lack of access to the x86's real mode under *BSD (no kernel support). James -- : James Robinson : james@hermes.cybernetics.net ::See the screaming hot black :FreeBSD|XFree86 :The best things in life are Free:: steaming iridescent : Frank Zappa : Music is the best ::naughahyde python screaming : HTTP Server : http://hermes.cybernetics.net/ :: steam roller!