Memory allocation in real mode is handled entirely by DOS. There's no way to "step around" this without writing your own mini-DOS, and that would make your QB "OS" just another DOS program.
(Also, the EXEs BC generates are packed...)
You could make a qbasic file that writes the core OS using binary file access. Hence your OS was, technically, written in QB
Haha, nice, a QB prog that outputs the OS core and reboots
It would be an OS core written in machine code, not QB.
Qb writes the core, the core is written "in" qb.. (well, by QB to be correct)
Hehe
It's written in your computer
How about this:
1> TAKE a linux kernel
2> install / use it
3> make you Os in FB... although it WOULD be another version of linux written in fb...
hey, why dont we all go and make a linux variation in fb? hmm... thebigbasicq, wut do u think?
Quote:hey, why dont we all go and make a linux variation in fb?
Because Linux is written in C, not BASIC.
Maybe I'm just confused on my own, but your post doesn't make any sense...
-shiftLynx
Umm, still wouldn't be an actual OS, if you wanted an actual OS you can't use a Disk Operating System. To completely ignore DOS and write an actual OS then you must start with raw machine language/circuitry logic.... gates, and, or's, etc...
Otherwise you can just call it another DOS shell :wink:
Laters.
Nemesis
Quote:hey, why dont we all go and make a linux variation in fb? hmm... thebigbasicq, wut do u think?
uh...it will just be another Linux distro? If you wanna make a QB OS you have to start with the kernel which IMHO cannot be written in QBASIC.