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Uhm, well, it all happens so fast I can't tell, but suffice it to say I get the scrolling: I tried this about four times and it looks like ther is a startup menu, but it soon goes into scrolling.

Rough translation (i realize this isn't quite right, but I figured I'd share): No Patiance! ;D (OK, I twisted it a bit)

Sorry, I assume this means an interrupt handler is not acounted for?

This is on smiddy1:

System Specs
smiddy1
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (2.17 GHz)
MSI KT4V Motherboard
640 MB RAM (333 MHz)
80 GB ATA HDD ST380013A
CD-ROM RW LITE-ON LTR-40125S
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X
1.44 FDD
PS/2 Mouse
MS Natural PS/2 Keyboard
RealTek 8139A NIC
CanoScan FB620U #2 (on USB)
VIA Compatable Fast Ethernet Adapter
2 x Serial Ports
1 x Parallel Port
RealTek AC'97 Audio for VIA
Texas Instruments SilverLink (on USB)
Canon S9000 Photoprinter (on USB)
APC UPS (on USB)
4 x USB hubs

@smiddy: sorry for the long delay in replying. I've tried to reconstruct this behaviour, have succeeded but not yet found a solution to it. It definitely has to do withthe manner of my handling of vm86 - I'm loading a process of its own for this. It works on some machines - on others it doesn't and I don't know yet, why. I'm on the ball althou to give you a satisfying experience of my OS.

BTW, I've uploaded a more recent version - with a "notsonicelooking" mouse pointer and some additional features - I definitely should do more bugfixing in other areas than only the gui service.

What's yet to be done: add a per-device/partition block caching mechanism. fix that vm86 monitor issue. Maybe I'll take a look on how tim robinson does it?

Stay safe )

No sweat on the reply timeline. Seems I'm as slow or slower. I'm away from my house for a while and don't have the same machine here for testing... Anyhow, I seem to recall before leaving on this trip that the menu worked once. But I can't recall what happened afterwords. When I return next Sunday (July 31st) I'll give it another shot and see what happens. I have two other machines I can test it on too.

Just a status report on what I'm about in these days

I've reimplemented pipes. Now it's a subsystem of the file service - a fs driver of its own. It just has some concurrency problems as it looks like currently. Two different consoles - I'm launching a pipetest-tool on the two of them and each of them decides to stall after two or three outputs. I'm surely munging something there.

Bah. Gonna have a look tomorrow or today evening - more closer than now. VirtualPC isn't the creme de la creme for testing hobby os's.

stay safe

hi, I just downloaded the ISO and tried it in VMWare 4.5.2. It runs successfully (everything says DONE/done) until the following lines:

... everything else ...
vm86 task loaded ...
fssrv: init..... done
guisrv: init ... done
boo auf console1

Then, F2-4 produces consoles with "boo auf consoleX" where X is 2-4 and F11 shows 15 processes 3 with NO_NAME after the guisrv.

The underlying hardware is a P4 2.4 GHz. The virtual machine has 128MB of RAM, CDROM IDE 0:1, floppy, IDE 0:0, NIC, USB, Audio.

Hi, durand
thanks for testing!

CDROM needs to be the second ide master (device 1:0 so to say.) I know, it's dumb, but I've not yet come around autodetecting from which cdrom it's been booting. It's hardcoded in it's current state.