little cleanup of README

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 47 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7bc5ea3..1fce118 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@ Welcome to FoolOS
 Disclaimer
 ----------
 
-THIS IS WORK IN PROGRESS.
+THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS.
 
 This is a simple and useless "operating system", with very basic 
 features, sorry. It is the fruit of my fundamental explorations of 
-the 32-bit protected mode, interrupt handling, memory management and 
-some other things.
+the x86 architectures,  32-bit protected mode, interrupt handling, 
+memory management, networking and some other things.
 
 ![Screenshot of FoolOS](/screenshots/foolos.png?raw=true "FoolOs Kernel")
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Issues
 * memory map location is hardcoded
 * ~4 first 4mb of physical mem are reserved by mem manager (hardcoded)
 * bootloader loads only 15sectors of kernel into mem. ~7KB?
-* Makefile is hardcoded and contains mistakes too!
+* Makefile is hardcoded and contains some mistakes too!
 * size of bitmap to track free blocks of physical memory is hardcoded to max.
 * physical memory manager allocator naively implemented.
 * kernel should run in high memory (~3gb) virutal mem. why? except v86 tasks?
@@ -38,12 +38,33 @@ Issues
 * redesign command handling (not inside the interrupt!!!)
 * implement a real shell (in user mode)
 
+REFERENCES
+==========
+
+* LINUX KERNEL
+* GNU HURD
+* MINIX
+* FreeBSD etc.
+* xv6
+* distributed OS?
+
+* e1000 driver
+
+* http://www.brokenthorn.com/Resources/OSDev17.html
+* http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/tutorial_html/9.-Multitasking.html
+* http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2011/labs/lab6/
+* http://wiki.osdev.org/Virtual_8086_Mode
+* http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2011/xv6.html
+
+* man syscalls (posix syscalls?)
+
 
 MY NOTES BELOW THIS LINE
 ========================
 
 Linux Startup x86
 -----------------
+~ ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny ~
 
 Some notes on the Linux statup process, or at least how I understand it.
 
@@ -103,46 +124,3 @@ ISA interrupts:
 0x3f
 
 
-TODOS
------
-
-    * study LINUX KERNEL
-    * GNU HURD
-    * MINIX
-    * FreeBSD etc.
-    * xv6 (!)
-
-    look at following linux drivers:
-    * e1000
-
-notes
------
-
-* posix - minimal set of function calls! 
-* distributed os
-* caches L1,L2,L3
-* controller -> ide inteface of device
-* probe memory!
-* a20~ wrap
-
-* ssd card reader
-* cobol fortran algol? compilers? 
-
-* quotation: ontogeny nrecapitulates phylogeny
-
-* own simple sell
-
-check:
-apertium?
-clang 
-freebsd 
-user-mode-linux
-
-REFERENCES
-==========
-
-* http://www.brokenthorn.com/Resources/OSDev17.html
-* http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/tutorial_html/9.-Multitasking.html
-* http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2011/labs/lab6/
-* http://wiki.osdev.org/Virtual_8086_Mode
-* http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2011/xv6.html