Hi all, Here are the minutes of the talk on Saturday (at BIT), 30th Oct 2004 : (Orator : Pavan T C) There a was general discussion on Operating Systems , Role of BIOS, modern PC architecture, a mention of PCI, System Calls, A bit about the VFS (Virtual File System), Architecture specific code in an OS and a breeze through of Bootup sequence. Towards the end, there was a small discussion on the design of a Shell. We also had a discussion on the functioning of the shell, rc files, internal and external commands, and similar features of a Shell. Regards Pavan PS : Please add to this if I have missed out anything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------