Perix Operating System News

I realise that it's been some time since my last update, and I apologise for the excessive delay, it was due to circumstances beyond my control. I will provide the update before the end of the month. I also realised that people complained about the lack of the source code. Should anyone require the old code, please email me, and I will provide them (no questions asked). People who contributed source code to the project (The boot loader for example, please contact me a.s.a.p. There are some details that I need to clear up. Also, please drop me a line as for possible features. All comments welcome.... read more

For those who were monitoring this project, it is under active development again. I intent to take the next few days to review the current code, and see where I stand. I am open to suggestions for any that wish to help with the development. As for the PCrt unit, I am aware that it is missing. Fortunately it is not difficult to implement it. More updates will be provided as, and when I get time.

Thanks for your patience.

For writing low level filesystem, memory manager.
Languages: Turbo Pascal 7.0 and Assembly
Filesystem: DOS Fat 12/16/32 and/or Ext2 Linux

Changed load image address in boot loader, do not use earlier versions of the bootloader... heap manager works only in perix version 0.01E

Resolved heap manager pointers, now you can make getmem, freemem, new and dispose calls.

Added Fast/High performance data compression library

Added Parallel Port support, polled method

Added fat 12 basic suport for display files

Multi Tasking is running in conjunction with protected mode. This feature will be delivered in the next release.

The Protected Mode is running and will be delivered in the next release.