The Musings of Peter Tattam

Well, it’s finally happened!!!

After more than 5 years, I finally have PetrOS and the other Trumpet products solely in my own name along with the rest of the IP of the Trumpet Software company. This has major implications for the future of PetrOS and ClassiOS. I’m not sure what else to say except it’s been so long, I felt like I was in a straight jacket not being able to code with any great freedom and having to use clean room techniques. Sadly, the reason it has taken so long is that my divorce settlement has taken that long to sort out, the IP being one of the last items to be finally be resolved.

The impact hasn’t fully hit me yet, but I can feel my wings again. Look forward to some new releases.

P!

It’s been a while but it has been moving on slowly. I have got to the stage of running some win32 code finally. I have a small shell (which doesn’t do much yet), but the shell is 100% win32 code (written in Delphi). Basically, I have enough of the win32 api to read/write to the console, read from files, list directory contents and change the current directory. Next on the list will be to fire up another application. I’ve got tcp/ip built into the kernel on this incarnation rather than loading via dll/device driver, so heading down the monolithic kernel path for now which suits embedded type apps.

Also, of interest, I got myself a small test system (wafer-lx) for embedded work -see pic. It has an AMD LX-800 CPU, 1 gig of ram, and a 4 gig hi speed Flash drive. This little beauty packs quite a punch – more details are below. I’ve got Classios to boot up on it with full TCP/IP networking. I can even boot it via DHCP/TFTP using the PXE protocols. P!

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