Where We Go From HereNow that we have our PC utilities in place, we can plan for the next stage in our 386BSD effort: development of the stand-alone system /sys/stand and its utilities. This system will possess the rudimentary drivers and a library of support routines which allow GCC programs to access devices and UNIX file-structures on the hard disk. It will also provide us with a platform to examine the requirements which must be met so that the 386 will support features to be incorporated into 386BSD.
[ No sooner do you abandon these initial utilities than just when everthing is up and running, as native booting of the kernel
requires a different software environment of an absolute boot loader from the first block of a dos partition. Yes you can do it that way from the start,
but its a lot easier working from some kind of an operating system than none on a system to begin with. Its ironic that something so critical at first
turns out to be just a step along a path. -wfj ]
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