From: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 17:02:23 GMT
Subject: Re: DPMI at boot time??
Message-ID: <7B1482622A@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk>

frank denis <Frank DOT Denis AT epita DOT fr> wrote (Subject: Re: DPMI at boot time??):-
> What I'd like to do is to launch a DJGPP binary actually at boot time, ie.
> from the boot sector of a floppy disk. How would it have been possible ?

That was possible on the ancient Apple desktop (made by the people who now
make Macs). The boot sector could be in assembler or in Apple Basic (run by an
interpreter), and the operating system had a specific user instruction for the
user to put a user program into the boot sector of a floppy, and I once did
that when making up a floppyful of polymerization software for my department.