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+HOS - Holtrop's Operating System
+--------------------------------
+
+HOS is (in the process of becoming) a 32-bit, protected mode, graphical, multitasking operating system.
+It was written by me, Josh Holtrop, with help from a few others along the way.
+
+
+Goals: (A = accomplished, P = in progress, T = todo)
+----------------------------------------------------
+(A) Custom bootloader to load kernel from FAT-formatted boot media, options for video mode/ram disk
+(A) Multiboot compliance - kernel can be loaded by GRUB
+(A) 32-bit protected mode environment
+(A) VESA Support for graphics modes
+(A) PS/2 keyboard & mouse drivers
+(A) Utilize x86's paging architecture for virtual memory management
+
+(P) Console Manager
+(P) VFS abstraction layer for a single file system
+(P) ram disk driver
+(P) devfs file system driver
+(P) ext2 file system support
+
+(T) vfat file system support
+(T) Multitasking support
+(T) HASH command shell
+(T) Window Manager
+(T) Various other utilities/applications
+(T) Hard Drive (ATA) driver
+(T) cdrom (ATAPI) driver
+
+
+Change Log
+----------
+0.16
+12/16/04 - initrd going to be loaded as a gzipped ext2 image (kernel module) - faster loading!
+
+0.15
+07/10/04 - Multiboot support added, loadable by GRUB
+
+0.14
+05/21/04 - C++ support in kernel, can use classes & templates
+04/04/04 - video_line function for diagonal lines
+03/16/04 - new VFS design with support for a loop device
+03/01/04 - Thanks to Ben Meyer for helping me get a Makefile working and building on linux to work!
+
+0.13
+01/26/04 - functions added to read/write CMOS clock date and time
+01/19/04 - fixed bug GDTR/IDTR pointing to physical rather than linear table base address
+01/07/04 - fixed bug not reading sectors correctly from floppy
+12/28/03 - fixed bug not storing eax on interrupt
+12/25/03 - fixed bug in mm_palloc()
+12/25/03 - incorporated output functions as regular functions rather than as part of a linked library
+12/23/03 - re-written physical memory manager using bitmap instead of stack
+12/22/03 - kernel relocated to 3gb linear / 1mb+24kb physical to allow for app. address space
+
+0.12
+12/21/03 - sample bmp loader tested, works (tests loading a kernel of size ~ 932kb)
+12/20/03 - GDT/IDT now located at 1mb physical, before kernel
+10/30/03 - turns floppy motor off
+10/30/03 - keyboard LEDs working
+10/29/03 - paging functions working
+10/15/03 - physical memory management page allocators working
+
+0.11
+10/09/03 - PS/2 mouse driver
+
+0.10
+09/11/03 - Rewritten C and assembly kernel with VESA GUI mode support, keyboard driver
+
+0.05
+05/14/03 - HGUI24/HGUI32 commands finished for testing GUI on both 24bpp and 32bpp graphics cards
+05/14/03 - first web release!
+
+0.04
+03/09/03 - added VM shortcut command
+03/09/03 - press up to fill retrieve last inputted command for Nate Scholten
+03/08/03 - press clear to clear console input
+03/07/03 - added "shortcut" commands PC, IC, ? for Nate Scholten
+03/06/03 - added PROMPTC, INPUTC commands
+
+0.03
+12/30/02 - Command Line Interface working, accepting basic commands
+
+0.02
+12/11/02 - Assembly bootsector can load stage2 ("console")
+
+0.01
+12/01/02 - Real mode assembly bootsector boots from floppy disk successfully
+