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Check out the alt.os.assembly  and  alt.os.development  news groups.
They cover making hobby OSes, most are for 386+ machines, and
made using djgpp or gcc.

I am using djgpp under win95 to make a small toy OS.
I wrote a bootstrap and 2nd stage that are for fat12 floppies,
that put the processor in a simple 32bit mode and load the kernel
that is in a linked coff format.

So 'yes' it can be done!
 (Making code that looks like anything to an outsider is a different story.)

Martin Stromberg wrote:

> Jonathan M Hill (jmhill AT twain DOT WPI DOT EDU) wrote:
> : Hello;
>
> :      I'm a college student and recently came accross a comment that the
> : Gnu linker ld will also locate code for embedded development use.
> : This immediately hit me, does DJGPP use the ld linker and can anyone
> : help me find the documentation?
>
> DJGPP does, but I don't know anything about embedded applications.
> You reach the docs by typing "info" (or even "info ld" for the linker
> I suppose).
>
> Right,
>
>                                                         MartinS

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