Dear Alexei,
My name is Steve Curtis and I live in Melbourne Australia.

I have found your web page and have had a feast downloading such a wonderful array of treats. In particular I have tried out your protected mode tutorials and have found them to be very valuable!!

I wondered If I could find a way of sending you a *** few dollars ***** as an appreciation of your effort?

My interest at the moment is to use the i86 processors as embedded machines, much as I might have done with the 8051. To me, the Intel 386 series up to the Pentium 4 are a cheap and inexpensive way to get processing power (say for DSP or Robotics or CNC machines) and they are on a standard architecture that I have been using for years. Therefore I have been trying to find a away of treating the ''386 much as I would have any other embedded processor.(e.g 8051)... The big stumbling block is the operating system. If I go with DOS I have a ''fast'' 16 bit machine. If I want to use extra memory I must use DPMI, but this can be slow. The best thing I can do is to use Protected Mode and unleash the 32bit potential!! -- so.

What I was trying to do is to is:-
1) Maybe have a destructive boot from floppy, to my single application, without any OS at all or...
2) Perhaps use DOS to load the application and never to return to DOS without a reset.
3) BUT -- What your tut''s show me is that I may be able to run from DOS and return to DOS, but have full PM access in the meantime!!

This is so very exciting and thank you so very much for making your discoveries available to me. It is truly wonderful.

Warmest regards,
Steve

hi to all,i want to create a new operating system with the microsoft visual c++.i don''t know how to start.please guide to me.thank u

Алексей, спасибо за помощь на alt.os.development, а также предоставленные на вашем сайте материалы. Удачи ;)

Hi Alexei,
I am very much impressed with your work.

I am Jay from India working as Desktop Engineer. Can you suggest me how to make external usb hard disk as bootable?

Regards,
Jay

Great job :-)..Excellent stuff.The OSDevSkeptically page is an excellent page to help OS developers and others to prepare mentally.

Kudos to you dude.

-tHE sILeNt fORce

Алексей, большое спасиьо ща интресные материалы и полезные ссылки. Удачи Вам!

Excellent just Excellent Stuff & Support for learners.
You have been doing Great service by maintaining these material available for free for Learners.

Why donot u write articles or any other stuff for embedded systems, their development and their other properties, like Windows CE.

Thanking You
From Me, as I have learned alot from your site, and from all those who enjoyed leaning this excellent material

dear sir,
thanks for such help

Алексей, не знаю, что побуждает тебя все глубже и глубже двигаться в дебри OS-кодинга, позволь просто сказать спасибо за то, что делишься своими наработками с остальными энтузиастами :-)

Hi Alex, i am writing a pascal operating system based on your multi tasking and protected mode sources... Excellent work!

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