Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jul 2000 16:37:43 -0600 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | MANOS Source Code Released |
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In commemoration of my 40th Birthday which is today (my wife brought black baloons and a birthday cake with a tombstone and vulture on it) I am releasing the IA32 version of the MANOS source code at 207.109.151.240 and www.timpanogas.com. At present, there's a binary MANOS.EXE file at manos\os\src that boots under MS-DOS (and goes nto 32 bit mode while keeping DOS resident in low memory).
The internal architeture of MANOS is **IDENTICAL** to the structure of NetWare except theirs no LAN or disk drivers (though you can use any servies in the underlyng DOS). This OS is built under DOS with Boralnd TC 4.5 and Intersolv PVCS code manager. THe debugger in kernel is exquisite in comparison to Linux and is offerred to Linus and Alan in the hopes you guys will help me get a version of it inside Linux. It's full source level and if we had this in Linux our development times would be reduced by a factor of about 20 since it has very good SMP debugging facilities.
At some point, we will be merging this with Linus code so folks can boot up Linux under MS-DOS and provide NetWare like performance, though I admit it's far from complete -- We've focused on Linux development and had this thing on a shelf gathering dust. It's not GPL yet, but I will update it in a few weeks and make it so. I've removed the Windows NT driver support layer (I have a layer for this that will load all NT device drivers and use them) and NTFS/FASTFAT sources from this tree, so it's just a barebones SMP kernel with a killer debugger.
The MANOS.EXE file boots under DOS, and may have problems on some machines.
Enjoy.
Jeff
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