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    From jmp$@VERT/ISIS to All on Sun Dec 5 09:27:56 2010
    Hello all, I am developing my own operating system in x86 asm, mostly as a learning experiens on assembly language and system level programming, and I have found a few good websites that have helped alot. But I am having trouble finding information on setting up the Interupt table before switching to
    Pmode. Does anyone have any info that might help? O could anyone point me somewhere with a good tutorial? Thanks much in advance.

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  • From Purple Nurple@VERT/FLAMINGS to jmp$ on Sun Dec 5 23:41:49 2010
    Re: Protected mode IDT
    By: jmp$ to All on Sun Dec 05 2010 09:27 am

    Hello all, I am developing my own operating system in x86 asm, mostly
    as a learning experiens on assembly language and system level
    programming, and I have found a few good websites that have helped
    alot. But I am having troubl finding information on setting up the Interupt table before switching to Pmode. Does anyone have any info
    that might help? O could anyone point me somewhere with a good
    tutorial? Thanks much in advance.

    I remember reading a book in the univeristy library from the early-mid '90s
    on how to write an OS for an i386 or better CPU. This wasn't the same book
    for which Minix was written, either. It was actually not a badly written
    book.

    Maybe I'll go jog my memory over my former university's catalog and if I
    find a match I'll respond with the ISBN. Maybe it's in circulation wherever you're at.

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  • From jmp$@VERT/ISIS to Purple Nurple on Mon Dec 6 13:37:44 2010
    Re: Protected mode IDT
    By: Purple Nurple to jmp$ on Sun Dec 05 2010 11:41 pm

    Than you, I would apreciste that very much
    Abortion couldn't stop me..

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  • From Purple Nurple@VERT/FLAMINGS to jmp$ on Wed Dec 8 20:38:50 2010
    Re: Protected mode IDT
    By: jmp$ to Purple Nurple on Mon Dec 06 2010 01:37 pm

    Re: Protected mode IDT By: Purple Nurple to jmp$ on Sun Dec 05 2010
    11:41 pm

    Than you, I would apreciste that very much Abortion couldn't stop
    me..

    Sorry for the delay. I got distracted a few days ago, but I found the book
    I remembered reading a long time ago. I was much younger when I read it and didn't know what I could do with it at the time, but I do recall that this
    book pretty much works you through the process of writing an operating
    system, including whatever intialization for protected mode you were lo
    king for. I'm certain it's not the only book of its kind, though, and that there are other possibly better sources out there.

    At any rate, maybe if you're lucky your library has this.

    Author Burgess, Richard A. Title: Developing your own 32-bit
    operating system / Richard A. Burgess.
    Imprint Indianapolis : Sams Publishing, c1995.
    Call No. QA 76.76 .O63 B87 1995
    Edition 1st ed.
    Description xvii, 741 p. ; 23 cm. + 1 computer laser optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
    System Details System requirements for computer disk: CD-ROM disk drive; 20 MB free space on hard drive; VGA video text.
    Note Includes index.
    The CD-ROM contains: MMURTL operating system source code; sample applications; 32-bit assembler; 32-bit C compiler.
    Subject Operating systems (Computers)
    Computer multitasking.
    ISBN 0672306557

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