All this talk of Unix and other OSes...

[blstuart at bellsouth.net]

>> And in principle, osinit.dis could initialize the graphics
>> hardware and fire off the window manager, and you
>> wouldn't need to write the emulation of a character
>> mode.
> 
> Window manager?  It handles windows in hardware?  Because that doesn't
> sound like something available on bare metal to me...

No, not in hardware.  When I say fire it off, I mean that
osinit.dis (the binary executed when the system comes
up) will start running the window manager program.

BLS