System disk 01

This will be the first of ”Dinkit’s” 50 or so system disk. System Disk1 is just a bare bones shell OS. (the kernel) The is no video screen, no keyboard, no sound, no nothing. This OS shell is used without changes through out all of  the “Dinkit projects”. The kernel is considered to be very stable. It is also used through all of the “Dinkit”, “Micro`dos” projects, and in a 16 bit protected mode project. There is a do_program procedure where you can add your code and experiments.

What you will learn

Like the boot file, you learn this kernel shell one time.  To keep this interesting you learn only the basic shell. Then do some fun stuff. Additional parts (code)  will get added to the kernel at a latter time on a needed bases through out the  Dinkit project. As a demo there is an ugly word editor that runs out or the Do_Program.  Some newbie programer are trying to improve upon it , because it is more fun.

Download System Disk 1

Go to the downloads page and click on the “system disk 001” link