SOS - Self-stabilizing Operating System
by Reuven Yagel http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~yagel
Advisor: Shlomi Dolev http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~dolev

Copyright:
SOS is open source under a BSD style license. Please see the COPYING
file for details. SOS can be downloaded from http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~yagel/sos where papers are available also.
Licences for some tools are in the tools library.

Description:
Version "sos-hdd"(v0.7) adds internal hard disk drive support (beforehand we counted on bios routines)

Hardware:
Standard PC architecture
Intel IA-32 and compatible processors (Pentium)

Build:
Windows: tools\make.cmd build image
Unix\Cygwin: make

Run image with the Bochs emulator:
tools\bochs.cmd

Development tools:
Assembler: nasm 0.98.35 (not included )http://nasm.sourceforge.net/
PC emulatoion: Bochs 2.2.6 (not included) http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
	remark: meanwhile does not work on newer versions due to changes in Bochs ROM layout
Image creation: qemu-img or bfi http://www.nu2.nu/bfi/
Image build: dd (4win) http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/dd.htm
Source editor: I happened to use MS Visual Studio on MS-Windwos, so the soltion file is included in .\sosVS (see also inside tools\make.cmd).

TBD:
Move ROM parts to a sperate (bochs) ROM image