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Phoenix OS/4 kernel

Home:

https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Phoenix_OS/4

Interface:

PMShell

Italiano

OS/4 is a research project intended to recreate the original kernel for the IBM Operating System/2. The main goal of the project is to make the system able to work on the PCs where the original kernel can't.

Some of the new features included in OS/4 kernel:

new OS2LDR (QSINIT loader compatible with it), that allows kernel selection menu with custom CONFIG.SYS for each entry
hardware virtualization (VT-x, AMD-V)
PAT extensions to cache video cards memory
PSE36, instead of PAE to access memory above 4GB
HPET (High Precision Event Timer) support
...

Download the most recent release at: http://www.gus.biysk.ru/os4/

Contact the OS/4 developer Team on #os2russian IRC channel on EFNet network (irc://efnet/os2russian )