Re: Question about the A20 line

On 29 Dec 2005 19:01:26 -0800, Jean-François Michaud
<spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sweet! I'm working on my lil hobby OS myself. My whole system is based
> on the FORTH compiler architecture. Same as you, great learning
> experience and forevermore fun.
>
> I think its the funnest project I've worked on. It will never be over
>:).
>
> Yeah my code doesn't work on any computer, that I know of, other than
> my laptop. But then again I flip A20 through port 92 so I was fishing
> for trouble ;). I didn't care about making it work on other computers
> and I still don't I guess.
>
You know, you might look at FreeDOS and their himem.sys source code for
some ideas about handling A20.


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