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- The pc86 platform
- =================
- pc86 is an i86-based BSP that produces bootable floppy disk images that can
- be run on most PCs. It is intended to be quick and dirty rather than actually
- useful, although it may come in handy for hardware test purposes, boot
- loaders, and the like.
- The code runs in TINY mode, where CS, DS and SS all share the same segment.
- This means that there's not very much memory available. It would be very easy
- to change it to run in SMALL mode, where CS occupies one segment and DS and SS
- another, which would give 64kB for nearly all programs; I just haven't done it.
- This port only implements a very limited set of syscalls --- and most of those
- are stubs required to make the demo apps link. File descriptors 0, 1 and 2
- represent the console. All reads block. There's enough TTY emulation to allow
- \n conversion and local echo (but it can't be turned off).
- Example command line
- ====================
- ack -mpc86 -O -o pc86.img examples/paranoia.c
- The file pc86.img can then be copied onto a floppy and booted, or run via qemu
- or somesuch emulator.
- David Given
- dg@cowlark.com
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