Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: I'd like an absolute minimal version of FreeDOS.

2016-06-16 Thread Antony Gordon 
Most of you missed the point on this.

Here's the clearer version, based upon me reading (and re-reading several
times). As a matter of fact, I'll use an example.

Install any version of MS/PC-DOS prior to 6.0 on a computer. It boots up,
tells you that you are running that particular version of DOS and gives you
a command prompt (until you start customizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT).
DOS 6.0+ automatically detects that it can toss in HIMEM.SYS and typically
does so. What it does not do (that FreeDOS does) is run through the
copyright, the GPL license, and that it's based on a project started by Pat
Villani and mentioning DOS-C and such. Not minimizing the importance, but
that doesn't need to appear on the splash screen for MS-DOS. That
information can be in a text file.

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 8:57 PM Jayden Charbonneau 
wrote:

> ​Time to program with the delete key then. (Pun)​
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 8:13 PM, Mercury Thirteen  > wrote:
>
>> Yep, the bootloader and a FreeDOS kernel with the boot message removed.
>> Problem solved. :)
>>
>> On 6/15/2016 6:57 PM, Jayden Charbonneau wrote:
>>
>> I may be wrong on this,but couldn't we just strip down the code used for
>> FreeDOS?Removing un-needed modules,drivers,and removing any COUT/PRINTF
>> statements to the point where it's just the kernel itself should do it.
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 4:25 AM, Maarten Vermeulen <
>> netraa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think that can be done right? If we are finished with 1.2, then we (or
>>> some of us) can make it. Unless, nobody wants to do such thing. So, yeah I
>>> am volunteering. but it still needs an under layer right (for running
>>> programs)?
>>>
>>> Maarten
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> 2016-06-15 9:23 GMT+02:00 Eric Auer < 
>>> e.a...@jpberlin.de>:
>>>

 >From Ben Hutchinson < benh...@gmail.com>

 By minimal, I mean that the boot sector program, and the kernel
 (kernel.sys), don't do any displaying of text. All they need to do is
 set up the DOS interrupt vectors (so that they behave correctly just as
 with MS-DOS), and then load and execute the first file, command.com. No
 displaying text at all. The screen should remain blank until something
 in command.com causes text or graphics to display. Such an absolute
 minimal version of FreeDOS would be useful for me, because it would
 allow me to write my own program in assembly language, call it
 command.com, and then copy that file to the disk, and use it to boot
 another computer directly into the software I've written. This minimal
 version of FreeDOS would be just a boot-loader for my own OS-level
 software, a launch-point for my application (my application existing in
 place of an OS, rather than being run from an OS), that would then run
 upon booting.


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Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: I'd like an absolute minimal version of FreeDOS.

2016-06-16 Thread Mercury Thirteen 

My thoughts exactly!


On 6/15/2016 8:56 PM, Jayden Charbonneau wrote:

​Time to program with the delete key then. (Pun)​

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 8:13 PM, Mercury Thirteen 
> wrote:


Yep, the bootloader and a FreeDOS kernel with the boot message
removed. Problem solved. :)


On 6/15/2016 6:57 PM, Jayden Charbonneau wrote:

I may be wrong on this,but couldn't we just strip down the code
used for FreeDOS?Removing un-needed modules,drivers,and removing
any COUT/PRINTF statements to the point where it's just the
kernel itself should do it.

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 4:25 AM, Maarten Vermeulen
> wrote:

I think that can be done right? If we are finished with 1.2,
then we (or some of us) can make it. Unless, nobody wants to
do such thing. So, yeah I am volunteering. but it still needs
an under layer right (for running programs)?

Maarten

--

2016-06-15 9:23 GMT+02:00 Eric Auer >:


>From Ben Hutchinson >

By minimal, I mean that the boot sector program, and the
kernel
(kernel.sys), don't do any displaying of text. All they
need to do is
set up the DOS interrupt vectors (so that they behave
correctly just as
with MS-DOS), and then load and execute the first file,
command.com . No
displaying text at all. The screen should remain blank
until something
in command.com  causes text or
graphics to display. Such an absolute
minimal version of FreeDOS would be useful for me,
because it would
allow me to write my own program in assembly language,
call it
command.com , and then copy that file
to the disk, and use it to boot
another computer directly into the software I've written.
This minimal
version of FreeDOS would be just a boot-loader for my own
OS-level
software, a launch-point for my application (my
application existing in
place of an OS, rather than being run from an OS), that
would then run
upon booting.

Project founder and developer of BirdOS by FeatherCode



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Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: I'd like an absolute minimal version of FreeDOS.

2016-06-15 Thread Jayden Charbonneau 
​Time to program with the delete key then. (Pun)​

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 8:13 PM, Mercury Thirteen 
wrote:

> Yep, the bootloader and a FreeDOS kernel with the boot message removed.
> Problem solved. :)
>
> On 6/15/2016 6:57 PM, Jayden Charbonneau wrote:
>
> I may be wrong on this,but couldn't we just strip down the code used for
> FreeDOS?Removing un-needed modules,drivers,and removing any COUT/PRINTF
> statements to the point where it's just the kernel itself should do it.
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 4:25 AM, Maarten Vermeulen < 
> netraa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think that can be done right? If we are finished with 1.2, then we (or
>> some of us) can make it. Unless, nobody wants to do such thing. So, yeah I
>> am volunteering. but it still needs an under layer right (for running
>> programs)?
>>
>> Maarten
>>
>> --
>>
>> 2016-06-15 9:23 GMT+02:00 Eric Auer < 
>> e.a...@jpberlin.de>:
>>
>>>
>>> >From Ben Hutchinson < benh...@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> By minimal, I mean that the boot sector program, and the kernel
>>> (kernel.sys), don't do any displaying of text. All they need to do is
>>> set up the DOS interrupt vectors (so that they behave correctly just as
>>> with MS-DOS), and then load and execute the first file, command.com. No
>>> displaying text at all. The screen should remain blank until something
>>> in command.com causes text or graphics to display. Such an absolute
>>> minimal version of FreeDOS would be useful for me, because it would
>>> allow me to write my own program in assembly language, call it
>>> command.com, and then copy that file to the disk, and use it to boot
>>> another computer directly into the software I've written. This minimal
>>> version of FreeDOS would be just a boot-loader for my own OS-level
>>> software, a launch-point for my application (my application existing in
>>> place of an OS, rather than being run from an OS), that would then run
>>> upon booting.
>>>
>>>
>> Project founder and developer of BirdOS by FeatherCode
>>
>>
>>
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>> patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols
>> are
>> consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow,
>> J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity
>> planning
>> reports.
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>>
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Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: I'd like an absolute minimal version of FreeDOS.

2016-06-15 Thread Mercury Thirteen 
Yep, the bootloader and a FreeDOS kernel with the boot message removed. 
Problem solved. :)



On 6/15/2016 6:57 PM, Jayden Charbonneau wrote:
I may be wrong on this,but couldn't we just strip down the code used 
for FreeDOS?Removing un-needed modules,drivers,and removing any 
COUT/PRINTF statements to the point where it's just the kernel itself 
should do it.


On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 4:25 AM, Maarten Vermeulen 
> wrote:


I think that can be done right? If we are finished with 1.2, then
we (or some of us) can make it. Unless, nobody wants to do such
thing. So, yeah I am volunteering. but it still needs an under
layer right (for running programs)?

Maarten

--

2016-06-15 9:23 GMT+02:00 Eric Auer >:


>From Ben Hutchinson >

By minimal, I mean that the boot sector program, and the kernel
(kernel.sys), don't do any displaying of text. All they need
to do is
set up the DOS interrupt vectors (so that they behave
correctly just as
with MS-DOS), and then load and execute the first file,
command.com . No
displaying text at all. The screen should remain blank until
something
in command.com  causes text or graphics to
display. Such an absolute
minimal version of FreeDOS would be useful for me, because it
would
allow me to write my own program in assembly language, call it
command.com , and then copy that file to
the disk, and use it to boot
another computer directly into the software I've written. This
minimal
version of FreeDOS would be just a boot-loader for my own OS-level
software, a launch-point for my application (my application
existing in
place of an OS, rather than being run from an OS), that would
then run
upon booting.

Project founder and developer of BirdOS by FeatherCode



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Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: I'd like an absolute minimal version of FreeDOS.

2016-06-15 Thread Mercury Thirteen 

It sure can :)

The most straightforward way I can think of to do this would be to use 
eliminate everything from FreeCOM on up. This would leave you with the 
FreeDOS bootloader and kernel.sys. Kernel.sys seems to only need 
command.com, so whatever you make could load in its place right there, 
also named command.com. Kernel.sys would then need patched or recompiled 
to remove the simple boot message.



On 6/15/2016 4:25 AM, Maarten Vermeulen wrote:
I think that can be done right? If we are finished with 1.2, then we 
(or some of us) can make it. Unless, nobody wants to do such thing. 
So, yeah I am volunteering. but it still needs an under layer right 
(for running programs)?


Maarten

--

2016-06-15 9:23 GMT+02:00 Eric Auer >:



>From Ben Hutchinson >

By minimal, I mean that the boot sector program, and the kernel
(kernel.sys), don't do any displaying of text. All they need to do is
set up the DOS interrupt vectors (so that they behave correctly
just as
with MS-DOS), and then load and execute the first file,
command.com . No
displaying text at all. The screen should remain blank until something
in command.com  causes text or graphics to
display. Such an absolute
minimal version of FreeDOS would be useful for me, because it would
allow me to write my own program in assembly language, call it
command.com , and then copy that file to the
disk, and use it to boot
another computer directly into the software I've written. This minimal
version of FreeDOS would be just a boot-loader for my own OS-level
software, a launch-point for my application (my application
existing in
place of an OS, rather than being run from an OS), that would then run
upon booting.

Project founder and developer of BirdOS by FeatherCode



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Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: I'd like an absolute minimal version of FreeDOS.

2016-06-15 Thread Louis Santillan 
Blackout[0] or bootsplash[1] could solve the screen blanking.


[0] http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=blackout
[1] http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=bootsplash

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Jayden Charbonneau
 wrote:
> With some sort of process that can run programs,obviously.Unless that's not
> what you wanted?
>
> Would you be using NASM or something of the liking,or DIRECTLY inputting
> assembly/machine statements into the CPU?
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Jayden Charbonneau
>  wrote:
>>
>> I may be wrong on this,but couldn't we just strip down the code used for
>> FreeDOS?Removing un-needed modules,drivers,and removing any COUT/PRINTF
>> statements to the point where it's just the kernel itself should do it.
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 4:25 AM, Maarten Vermeulen 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think that can be done right? If we are finished with 1.2, then we (or
>>> some of us) can make it. Unless, nobody wants to do such thing. So, yeah I
>>> am volunteering. but it still needs an under layer right (for running
>>> programs)?
>>>
>>> Maarten
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> 2016-06-15 9:23 GMT+02:00 Eric Auer :


 >From Ben Hutchinson 

 By minimal, I mean that the boot sector program, and the kernel
 (kernel.sys), don't do any displaying of text. All they need to do is
 set up the DOS interrupt vectors (so that they behave correctly just as
 with MS-DOS), and then load and execute the first file, command.com. No
 displaying text at all. The screen should remain blank until something
 in command.com causes text or graphics to display. Such an absolute
 minimal version of FreeDOS would be useful for me, because it would
 allow me to write my own program in assembly language, call it
 command.com, and then copy that file to the disk, and use it to boot
 another computer directly into the software I've written. This minimal
 version of FreeDOS would be just a boot-loader for my own OS-level
 software, a launch-point for my application (my application existing in
 place of an OS, rather than being run from an OS), that would then run
 upon booting.

>>>
>>> Project founder and developer of BirdOS by FeatherCode
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>> traffic
>>> patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols
>>> are
>>> consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow,
>>> J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity
>>> planning
>>> reports.
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>>>
>>
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Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: I'd like an absolute minimal version of FreeDOS.

2016-06-15 Thread Jayden Charbonneau 
With some sort of process that can run programs,obviously.Unless that's not
what you wanted?

Would you be using NASM or something of the liking,or DIRECTLY inputting
assembly/machine statements into the CPU?

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Jayden Charbonneau <
binarybyte@gmail.com> wrote:

> I may be wrong on this,but couldn't we just strip down the code used for
> FreeDOS?Removing un-needed modules,drivers,and removing any COUT/PRINTF
> statements to the point where it's just the kernel itself should do it.
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 4:25 AM, Maarten Vermeulen 
> wrote:
>
>> I think that can be done right? If we are finished with 1.2, then we (or
>> some of us) can make it. Unless, nobody wants to do such thing. So, yeah I
>> am volunteering. but it still needs an under layer right (for running
>> programs)?
>>
>> Maarten
>>
>> --
>>
>> 2016-06-15 9:23 GMT+02:00 Eric Auer :
>>
>>>
>>> >From Ben Hutchinson 
>>>
>>> By minimal, I mean that the boot sector program, and the kernel
>>> (kernel.sys), don't do any displaying of text. All they need to do is
>>> set up the DOS interrupt vectors (so that they behave correctly just as
>>> with MS-DOS), and then load and execute the first file, command.com. No
>>> displaying text at all. The screen should remain blank until something
>>> in command.com causes text or graphics to display. Such an absolute
>>> minimal version of FreeDOS would be useful for me, because it would
>>> allow me to write my own program in assembly language, call it
>>> command.com, and then copy that file to the disk, and use it to boot
>>> another computer directly into the software I've written. This minimal
>>> version of FreeDOS would be just a boot-loader for my own OS-level
>>> software, a launch-point for my application (my application existing in
>>> place of an OS, rather than being run from an OS), that would then run
>>> upon booting.
>>>
>>>
>> Project founder and developer of BirdOS by FeatherCode
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>> traffic
>> patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols
>> are
>> consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow,
>> J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity
>> planning
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[Freedos-devel] Fwd: I'd like an absolute minimal version of FreeDOS.

2016-06-15 Thread Eric Auer 

>From Ben Hutchinson 

By minimal, I mean that the boot sector program, and the kernel
(kernel.sys), don't do any displaying of text. All they need to do is
set up the DOS interrupt vectors (so that they behave correctly just as
with MS-DOS), and then load and execute the first file, command.com. No
displaying text at all. The screen should remain blank until something
in command.com causes text or graphics to display. Such an absolute
minimal version of FreeDOS would be useful for me, because it would
allow me to write my own program in assembly language, call it
command.com, and then copy that file to the disk, and use it to boot
another computer directly into the software I've written. This minimal
version of FreeDOS would be just a boot-loader for my own OS-level
software, a launch-point for my application (my application existing in
place of an OS, rather than being run from an OS), that would then run
upon booting.



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