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Bootloaders

• GRUB
• LILO
• XOSL - Extended Operating System Loader
• System Commander
• Boot Magic
• Rolling your own Bootloader and the necessary theory

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Compilers

• GCC
  • Cygwin
  • MinGW and Dev-C++
  • DJGPP
  • Building a GCC Cross-Compiler
  • Porting GCC to Your OS
  • Calling conventions of GCC for x86 Systems
• Watcom C/C++
• Visual C/C++
• Other compilers

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Assemblers

• GNU as
• FASM
• NASM
• YASM
• Differences Between AT&T and Intel assembler formats

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Linkers

• GNU ld
• ar

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Emulators

• Bochs (i386) PC emulator
• QEMU
• Microsoft Virtual PC
• VMWare PC Emulator
• Virtual Box
• SimICS

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Working with Disk Images

• Useful tools
• ...under Linux, *BSDs and other unices
• ...under MacOS X
• ...under Windows

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