Most of you missed the point on this.
Here's the clearer version, based upon me reading (and re-reading several
times). As a matter of fact, I'll use an example.
Install any version of MS/PC-DOS prior to 6.0 on a computer. It boots up,
tells you that you are running that particular version of DOS and gives you
a command prompt (until you start customizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT).
DOS 6.0+ automatically detects that it can toss in HIMEM.SYS and typically
does so. What it does not do (that FreeDOS does) is run through the
copyright, the GPL license, and that it's based on a project started by Pat
Villani and mentioning DOS-C and such. Not minimizing the importance, but
that doesn't need to appear on the splash screen for MS-DOS. That
information can be in a text file.
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 8:57 PM Jayden Charbonneau <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Time to program with the delete key then. (Pun)
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 8:13 PM, Mercury Thirteen <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> Yep, the bootloader and a FreeDOS kernel with the boot message removed.
>> Problem solved. :)
>>
>> On 6/15/2016 6:57 PM, Jayden Charbonneau wrote:
>>
>> I may be wrong on this,but couldn't we just strip down the code used for
>> FreeDOS?Removing un-needed modules,drivers,and removing any COUT/PRINTF
>> statements to the point where it's just the kernel itself should do it.
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 4:25 AM, Maarten Vermeulen <
>> <[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I think that can be done right? If we are finished with 1.2, then we (or
>>> some of us) can make it. Unless, nobody wants to do such thing. So, yeah I
>>> am volunteering. but it still needs an under layer right (for running
>>> programs)?
>>>
>>> Maarten
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> 2016-06-15 9:23 GMT+02:00 Eric Auer < <[email protected]>
>>> [email protected]>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> >From Ben Hutchinson < <[email protected]>[email protected]>
>>>>
>>>> By minimal, I mean that the boot sector program, and the kernel
>>>> (kernel.sys), don't do any displaying of text. All they need to do is
>>>> set up the DOS interrupt vectors (so that they behave correctly just as
>>>> with MS-DOS), and then load and execute the first file, command.com. No
>>>> displaying text at all. The screen should remain blank until something
>>>> in command.com causes text or graphics to display. Such an absolute
>>>> minimal version of FreeDOS would be useful for me, because it would
>>>> allow me to write my own program in assembly language, call it
>>>> command.com, and then copy that file to the disk, and use it to boot
>>>> another computer directly into the software I've written. This minimal
>>>> version of FreeDOS would be just a boot-loader for my own OS-level
>>>> software, a launch-point for my application (my application existing in
>>>> place of an OS, rather than being run from an OS), that would then run
>>>> upon booting.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
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