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HOS - Holtrop's Operating System
HOS is 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.
Change Log
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0.14
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