ROM bios builder kit (was: a thought...)

[Terry Sare]

     Annabooks:
     
     11838 Bernardo Plaza Court
     San Deigo, CA 92128-2414
     (619)673-0870
     800-462-1042
     
     
     
     Another Company that makes link/locators is
     
     Paradigm Systems
     3301 Country Club Rd
     Suite 2214
     Endwell,NY 13760
     800-537-5043
     
     www.devtools.com
     
     I have used a limited version of their link/locate for a V25 SBC and 
     it worked (MS C7). It was free so I didn't complain -- much. They do 
     make libraries that allow you to write code that doesn't expect DOS or 
     other OSs. One thing to note: when you don't have a OS, things like 
     printf, all buffered IO, file IO, and all memory allocation functions 
     do NOT work in PC Compilers. Paradigm and other companies make 
     libraries that address this problem. Otherwise you get to piece a 
     library together from sources like 'Embedded Systems' and 'Circuit 
     Cellar'.
     
     ts


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Subject: Re: ROM bios builder kit (was: a thought...)
Author:  owner-diy_efi-outgoing at coulomb.eng.ohio-state.edu at dell_unix
Date:    10/3/96 1:20 AM


>At 07:57 PM 10/2/96 -0400, Thor Johnson wrote:
>
I used their stuff back at the dawn of time and John and John have a good
solid product with good support. Last I looked the price was right.

This is good solid code. We had a 4 NHz pc boot off a floppy in 10 seconds.
It didn't do any error checking it just loaded and went. We eventaly threw
away all the disk drive code and replaced it with network code. It took
two of us a couple of days after we found our way around their code.

Gordon

>There is a company in California called "Annabooks".  They sell a real nifty
>BIOS kit which allows you to write your own bios using routines from their
>library, I believe they also have the tools for ROMing your exe files to put
>onto a flash ROMdisk or whatever, and they also have a version of MSDOS
>specially made for ROMdisks.  I don't have the address + details handy, but
>I think they have a web page.  Try a Yahoo or Webcrawler search for Annabooks.
>If you still can't find them, drop me a line next week (I'm out of town
>until the 10th) and I can email you the particulars.
>
>regards
>dn
>dnorquay at awinc.com
>