On 26 Oct 97, Marius Bendiksen wrote to Paul Wankadia --
 MB> > would have had to show you all the ASM parts of PUNIX, in order to
 MB> How far has the PUNIX project come?
Not very far, unfortunately.  The boot-loader DOES work, now, thanks to a lot
of help from Quant, but that's just about it.  I keep telling myself (and
others) that I'll get working on things like system-calls, but I never get
around to it.  Bah.
 MB> A nice routing which I found very useful to call on regular intervals
 MB> until I was done with the first boot code was:
 MB> dot:            push ax
[rest of subroutine deleted]
That's what mine does for each head of each track.
 MB> > Time to write some "loader loader move thyself" code.
 MB> Shouldn't be more than a simple MOVSB from 07c0:0 to 1000:0 or somesuch.
For almost-maximum space, it moves to 0x90000.
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