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The ZealOS Charter now permits bootloaders to be excluded from the fully open-source public-domain source code requirement, but adds that the 'legacy' ZealOS ZealC public-domain HDD/DVD BIOS-mode bootloaders must always be provided, functional, and offered as a bootloader option during BIOS-mode installation.
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$WW,1$$FG,5$$TX+CX,"Credits"$$FG$
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$FG,2$Terry A. Davis$FG$ wrote all of TempleOS over a span of $FG,2$$TX,"15.0",D="DD_TEMPLEOS_AGE"$$FG$ years (full-time). ZealOS, written over a span of $FG,2$$TX,"3.1",D="DD_ZEALOS_AGE"$$FG$ years (part-time), is a fork of TempleOS. It can run on bare metal 64-bit PC's from about 2007-2019 with no layering, libraries, tools, modules or anything from other sources. Otherwise, you run it in a virtual machine, like $FG,2$VMware$FG$, $FG,2$QEMU$FG$ or $FG,2$VirtualBox$FG$. It is independent and can stand alone. 100% of the operating system source code is included on all distros, from the kernel to the compiler to the applications, including public-domain BIOS-mode boot loaders! It is public domain, not GPL.
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*) $LK,"ATA Reg and Cmd Definitions",A="MN:ATA_NOP"$ are originally from Linux. Later, Terry got the spec.
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*) The heap algorithm, $LK,"::/Kernel/Memory/MAllocFree.ZC"$, is adapted from one Terry saw at Ticketmaster when he worked on their VAX operating system.
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*) The adaptive-step-size-Runge-Kutta algorithm, $LK,"::/System/MathODE.ZC"$, is adapted from the book, $UL,1$Numerical Recipes in C$UL,0$.
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*) The mountain in some games is from $FG,4$$TX,"http://www.public-domain-photos.com",HTML="http://www.public-domain-photos.com"$$FG$. The wolf in BlackDiamond is also from there. Terry took watermarked photos and converted to 16 color.
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*) The $FG,2$FAT32$FG$ file system is owned by MicroSoft.
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*) A few features were inspired by $FG,2$MATLAB$FG$, such as $FG,2$ans$FG$ in expressions at the command-line. There is a lot of $FG,2$MSDOS$FG$ , $FG,2$Windows$FG$, $FG,2$VAXTMOS$FG$ (VAX Ticketmaster O.S.) and $FG,2$Unix$FG$ inspiration, too, such as drive letters, command names, etc.
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*) Terry included $LK,"PCIDevice List File",A="FI:::/Misc/PCIDevices.DD",HTML="http://www.pcidatabase.com/reports.php?type=tab-delimeted"$.
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*) Thanks to whoever wrote this $FG,4$$TX,"CppHtml.ZC",HTML="http://web.archive.org/web/20100325153025/http://home.scarlet.be/zoetrope/cpphtml.htm"$$FG$. Terry was a novice on web stuff and you helped him with html. See $LK,"::/Demo/ToHtmlToTXTDemo/ToHtml.ZC"$.
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*) Terry used the $FG,4$$TX,"ISO9660",HTML="http://users.telenet.be/it3.consultants.bvba/handouts/ISO9960.html"$$FG$ spec to help him understand the ISO9660 file system format.
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*) Terry looked at bootable CD boot sectors, but didn't learn anything, finding it easier to make his own.
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*) Terry thought he got his original PC speaker code from $FG,2$Borland C$FG$.
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*) Terry found PS/2 keyboard and mouse code on the net and documentation. His code is very different. He found VGA register info on the net.
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*) Thanks to $FG,4$$TX,"http://www.osdev.org",HTML="http://www.osdev.org"$$FG$ for a couple tips.
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*) Terry got $FG,4$$TX,"Webster's Dictionary",HTML="http://www.templeos.org/files/DICTIONARY.DD"$$FG$ and $LK,"The King James Bible",A="FI:::/Misc/Bible.TXT"$ from $FG,4$$TX,"Project Gutenberg",HTML="http://web.archive.org/web/20110730111436/http://promo.net/pg/"$$FG$.
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*) John Carmack inspired Terry to use "$LK,"Clamp",A="MN:Clamp"$" as a name instead of "Limit". He inspired Terry to use "needle" and "haystack" as names. He inspired Terry to simplify his Frames-Per-Second code.
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*) Bill Gates inspired Terry to add comments to the $LK,"Help & Index",A="FI:::/Doc/HelpIndex.DD"$.
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*) Terry hired an artist, Cody Rigby, for $$3,000 worth of pixel art.
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*) The random number generator is from Donald Knuth in the wikipedia entry for $TX,"Linear_congruential_generator",HTML="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator"$.
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*) The $FG,4$optional$FG$ UEFI-compatible Limine bootloader is copyrighted by GitHub user 'mintsuki' and project contributors, under the BSD-2 License. $FG,4$This bootloader is NOT included by default$FG$, and is only available on ZealOS distro ISO builds marked "BSD2-UEFI" in the ISO filename.
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* "MSDOS", "Windows", and "FAT32" are trademarks owned by MicroSoft Corp.
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* "MATLAB" is a trademark owned by The Math Works, Inc.
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* "QEMU" is a trademark owned by Fabrice Bellard.
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* "VAX" is a trademark owned by Digital Equipment Corp.
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* "Linux" is a trademark owned by Linus Torvalds.
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* "VAXTMOS" is a trademark owned by Ticketmaster.
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