From: Tom St Denis <stdenis AT compmore DOT net>
Newsgroups: alt.os.development,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Cosmos OS, release 9
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 05:12:51 GMT
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In article <3a440032$0$35020$6d6c75b AT news DOT execpc DOT com>,
  NoEmailAds AT execpc DOT com (Chris Giese) wrote:
> http://www.execpc.com/~geezer/os/index.htm#cosmos
>
> - sys_time() fixed and tested; uses unique JDN algorithm
> - Keyboard now uses scancode set 1 always
> - Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot
> - Fixed bug in I/O permission bitmap
> - Code segment limit changed with each task switch, to prevent
execute of data segment
> - Kernel memory (code and data) that is used only during kernel
initialization is freed after use.
> - COFFLOAD.ASM now tries to turn on the A20 gate using 2 methods
>
> If you tried to run an older version of Cosmos and got the message
> "Could not enable A20 gate", please try this new version.

I downloaded a copy it worked :-)

What would be really cool though to have a win98/clone.  I.e it runs
under DOS and works with the DOS file system (or FAT32 :-)) but isn't
1.7GB in size :-)

Tom


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