1st Edition

FreeDOS Kernel An MS-DOS Emulator for Platform Independence & Embedded System Development

By Pat Villani Copyright 1996
    328 Pages
    by CRC Press

    340 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Master operation system development. FreeDOS Kernel explains the construction and operation of Pat Villani's DOS-C - a highly portable, single threaded operating system. Written in C and with system calls similar to MS-DOS, the FreeDOS kernel provides an

    Chapter 1 Introduction, Chapter 2 DOS Basics, Chapter 3 Bird's-Eye View of DOS-C, Chapter 4 DOS-C Kernel: File System Manager, Chapter 5 DOS-C Kernel: Memory Manager and Task Manager, Chapter 6 DOS-C Kernel: API, Chapter 7 Command Line Interpreter, Chapter 8 DOS-C Kernel-Putting It All Together, Appendix A A Note about Portability, Appendix B The FreeDOS Project: Official FAQ File, Appendix C DOS-C Distribution Disk, Index

    Biography

    Pat Villani has developed applications ranging from avionics and guidance to computer peripherals. His special interests are C applications and embedded control systems. He received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of New York.