Hi Bastiaan!
24 Jan 2002, "Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
BF> Does that make C an operating system?
no, it's a programmin language :)
BF> Abt 20 years ago computers like Sinclair and MSX had BASIC for their
BF> OS.
No ... those computers had a OS + the BASIC Interpreter.
The C64 had a kernal ROM (OS) + a BASIC ROM (basic)
it was simply the case that the OS started the basic interpreter.
It was the same with the first versions of IBM PCs ... they had also a
version of DOS in the BIOS.
BF> Would it be possible to re-compile DOS and other OS's (even windows?)
BF> to C, BASIC or whatever higher programming language?
BF> Or machine specific 'mnemonics'?
?? DOS, Windows and Linux are all written in C.
You compile those sources and get the OS binaries ...
I don't fully understand your question.
BF> Bastiaan
CU, Ricsi
--
|~)o _ _o Richard Menedetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> {ICQ: 7659421} (PGP)
|~\|(__\| -=> Ethernet: A device for catching the Ether Bunny <=-
