J-OS

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J-OS is a small operating system for computers equipped with an 8086 or faster CPU. It's easially fitted on one floppy. J-OS is partly written as an operating system tutorial, and is well commented (on Norwegian for now). Some features of J-OS:

  • A Bootloader which loads the kernel and shell into memory
  • A Kernel which sets up an interrupt handler to handle interrupt calls, and execute them
  • A shell that accepts a few commands
  • Password protection

The current J-OS version is 1.020

[edit] Available commands

  • CLEAR - Clears the screen
  • HELP - Shows the help screen
  • LOAD - Loads a program from a program number into memory
  • RUN - Runs a program in memory that has been loaded by LOAD
  • REBOOT - Reboots the system
  • SYSINFO - Shows debug information such as CPU register contents, etc.
  • VERSION - Displays the current J-OS version and copyright information

[edit] System requirements

J-OS doesn't require much:

  • A 8086 or better CPU (8088 will NOT work)
  • At least 640K of memory
  • Color Graphics Adapter or better graphics with color support
  • A floppy drive and a clean floppy
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