From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   Yesterday I got two important things working.   
      
   1. The infrastructure is good enough to do a the BIOS   
   call to retrieve memory above 64 MB, which uses 32-bit   
   registers, something I didn't expect in the original design.   
      
   2. Serial port is now working on real hardware for receive   
   as well as send.   
      
   So I am now going to cut a new distribution and use a   
   laptop with a serial port and I will use just the internal   
   hard disk instead of effectively cheating with USB HDDs   
   where in 1980s terms I would have had to take the HDD   
   out of the machine and into someone else's in order to   
   transfer data.   
      
   And I am only going to allow public domain material onto   
   the laptop (basically UC386). And I am going to start with   
   a floppy disk image on a CDROM.   
      
   As far as I know, everything is in place. I will be able to   
   write code on my public domain machine, but if I want to   
   write outside of the limits of SubC I will need to pay a   
   price by transferring to the full PDOS/386 to get it   
   compiled "remotely".   
      
   I am videoing what I am up to near the end of http://pdos.org   
      
   Interestingly I hit a 2 GB limit - so much for everything being   
   64-bit, when I tried to upload my nearly 4 GB video. So the   
   second video needs to be reassembled (with copy /b or   
   equivalent).   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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