Not to question your goals, but much of DOS was simply accessing PC BIOS saved in non-volatile ROM. Yes, the BIOS was copied to RAM at boot. Maybe lots of RAM and storage is OK, but many embedded systems like ROM. Iznogoud wrote: > ALl ideas welcome. We can dismiss MSDOS anything right away... That is so early > 90s, and other than retro-gaming, it is dead. Good back then when geeks made things > happen with non-protected mode multitasking and little memory. > > Andrew's suggestions are spot on. > > My preliminary plan was to pick a distro that has an ARM clone that is almost > identical to its x86 distro. Then, work out the booting and system configuration > on the x86 with VMs. Then do the same on the ARM side. Final toolchaining can be > left to somebody smarter than me. > > I need to think more and ahrd about this now. I need to put some time into it. All > additional info most welcome. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >