The Perfect Operating System - off square one :)
Here's the README from something I just downloaded:
Standalone ciforth with sector and track I/O.
Requirements 80386 + , reasonably modern hard disk.
Content:
alonetr.ps : ciforth documentation for stand alone 32 bits Forth
fdimage : boot image with kernel and blocks
readme.txt : this file
rawrite.exe : to write a floppy on DOS / Windows
rawrite3.doc : doc of the above
To install ciforth on a 3" HD floppy under DOS:
use the program rawrite.exe (supplied) to write
the file ``FDIMAGE'' to a 3" HD floppy.
To install ciforth on a 3" HD floppy under Linux:
cp fdimage /dev/fd0H1440
You have now a bootable floppy with a forth in protected mode
and 4 Mbyte core and 1 Mbyte worth of blocks.
To install ciforth on a hard disk system:
boot from the floppy
1 LOAD
REQUIRE INSTALL-FORTH-ON-HD
Keep typing `Y' as long as you agree.
Your system now boots from your hard disk into a 32 bits
protected mode Forth that uses all your core and can access the
disk inasfar the BIOS allows it, up to 8 Terabyte (less on older
system.)
ciforth is a close-to-ISO Forth supplied under the terms as
set forth in appendix C of the documentation supplied.
More ciforth systems at the site below.
--
Albert van der Horst,Oranjestr 8,3511 RA UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS
To suffer is the prerogative of the strong. The weak -- perish.
albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl [link|http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst|http://home.hccnet.n...w.m.van.der.horst]
I have an old Gateway laptop with 16M of RAM (a universe in FORTH) and a 2G "reasonably modern" disk. Yippee!
