And in
principle, osinit.dis could initialize the graphics
hardware and fire off the window manager, and you
wouldn't need to write the emulation of a character
mode.
Window manager? It handles windows in hardware? Because that doesn't
sound like something available on bare metal to me...
No, not in hardware. When I say fire it off, I mean that
osinit.dis (the binary executed when the system comes
up) will start running the window manager program.
BLS