OS_Testers List for individual or small group authored Operating Systems

This page is dedicated to those who individually or those in a small group, are creating an Operating System for
an Intel x86 compatible box. This list doesn't discriminate against the progress or advancement of the OS in
question.

This list is used for those who have an OS that they would like tested on multiple machines, with
decent feedback, and are willing to test others' OS's on their own test machine(s).

To add your OS and test machine(s) to this list, please send information to fys [at] frontiernet [dot] net.
Please include where/how to get an image of your OS, instructions on how to boot/install it, and a detailed
list of your test machines that you are willing to use for feedback on other OS's. Please be as detailed
as possible on each piece of hardware within each machine. Please also include contact information so
that others who test your OS may contact you with feedback. If you would like your contact address "mangled"
for anti spam-bot purposes, please let me know. However, you must give applicable instructions on how to
unmangle it.

Please remember, that this list is mainly used for those who are learning to create an OS and may
not have a very advanced OS yet. With this in mind, the more feedback you can give to the author, the
better. However, you may also include your OS here even if it is well advanced beyond the hobby stage.

When I say feedback, I mean feedback on what worked or didn't work on your particular machine. I don't mean
feedback on the quality of or the lack of quality of the OS in question.

Please note: It may be easier for the tester as well as the testee to simply write a DOS app that
tests a particular bit of code for a specific peice of hardware and simply run it in True DOS instead of
having to boot from a floppy or something. Please keep this in mind.

***** Please note that if you plan to test others' OS's, be warned that you are placing your test machines
hardware and software at risk. Please use caution when testing...

The list (in no particular order):
Last updated: 23 July 2007

FYSOS aka Konan:
Download page with instructions: http://www.frontiernet.net/~fys/fysos.htm
Feedback Contact: fys [at] frontiernet [dot] net

Test machines (3):
An Intel 486DX 33Mhz with 8meg of RAM (Small machine, I know)
Bootable DOS 5.0a installed.
- Main board: unknown
- AMIBIOS (486DX ISA BIOS)
- 1.44meg 3 1/2" floppy
- Brand: TEAC FD-235HF
- 1.2meg 5 1/4" floppy
- Brand: TEAC Sankyo
- Enhanced IDE Western Digital WD75 (WD Spartan) 7.5 gig hard drive.
- 15520 cylinders, 15 heads, 63 spt
- Master on cable
- Sony CDU33A CD ROM (these drives are on a specific card and
do not conform to the standard ATA IO specs.
- ISA bus
- one parallel
- multi IO card
- Floppy Controller
- Hard Drive Controller
- two 9 pin serial
- one 15 pin serial
- one parallel
- GENOA ISA video card
- Fast Micro 380Watt power
- Focus Electronics 5 pin keyboard
- serial mouse

A Celeron 1.10Ghz with 96meg of RAM
Bootable Win98 DOS installed.
- Main board: VIA
- 1.44meg 3 1/2" floppy
- SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-332B hard drive
- LG CD-ROM CRD-8521B
- two ATAPI CDROM's (different vendors)
- PS2 keyboard: Micro innovations KB-400i
- PS2 mouse
- PCI 2.1+ bus
- RTL8100L NIC
- VIA Technologies Inc [VT83C572] PCI USB Controller with two ports
(EHCI with 5 ports if I plug it in (OHCI))
- VIA Technologies Inc [VT8601] System Controller
- VIA Technologies Inc [VT82C601] PCI-to-PCI Bridge (AGP)
- VIA Technologies Inc [VT82C686/686A/686B] PCI-to-ISA bridge
- VIA Technologies Inc [VT82C586/596/686] PCI IDE Controller
- VIA Technologies Inc [VT82C686A] ACPI Power Management Controller
- Trident Microsystems [CyberBlade i1] AGP 51 (77?)
- VIA Technologies Inc [VT82C686A/B] AC97 Audio Codec
- NetMos Techology [Nm9835] PCI + Dual UART and 1284 Printer Port
- BIOS INFO:
- Vendor: Award Software International, Inc. Version: 6.00 PG
- Address: 0x000E0000 Release Date: 05/27/2002
- PORT INFO: 8251 FIFO Compatible
- PORT INFO: Serial - 16450 Compatible
- PORT INFO: Serial - 16450 Compatible
- PORT INFO: Parallel - ECP/EPP

A Penitum 637Mhz with 96meg of RAM.
Bootable Win98 DOS installed.
- 1.44meg 3 1/2" floppy
- ATA-3 or better hard drive with a single FAT32 partition.
- no ATAPI CDROM
- PS2 keyboard and mouse
- PCI 2.1+ bus
- UHCI usb with two ports
- Most of the (near) modern items (mid to late 1990's era)
(More detailed info the next time I pull it out)

2 - IBM PS/2's with a 3 1/2" floppy each
- I have yet to boot them. Don't know if they work.

(Sorry, I won't test it on my flagship or my newer boxes. I don't even test mine on my flagship :-).

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