Hey y'all! I got two quick questions.

1. What is the definition of a filesystem, and how does it work? I'd like to make a very simple one for my OS and I have seen various examples, but none I have seen so far make that much sense except for (believe it or not) that one guy's tiny 16-bit mode OS that came in here a couple of weeks or so ago.

2. What's the layout of a COM executable, and how can I get them to be readable by my OS?

Thanks for your alls time!

-Rhyno

BTW, the guy's name was kuscsikp, and it was his 512 byte OS.

1. I recommend looking up FAT 12/16 to get an idea of hat they are about.

2. COM files are flat binary executables, you would just load them at a specific location and jmp to that location to run it. (Ussually in realmode they are at and offset of 100h from the segment they are loaded).

Thanks smiddy!