Acknowledgements

I am a for profit company, not an academic.  I have never seen a commercial 
product with acknowledgements like an academic paper.  Never-the-less, here are 
referrences.  (I don't know the original sources on many of these.)

1) The font, ::/LT/OSMain/Font8x8.CPZ, is taken from FreeDOS.

2) ::/LT/OSMain/Dsk/ATADef.HPZ originally
from Linux.  I later got the spec.

3) The heap algorithm, ::/LT/OSMain/Memory.CPZ, is adapted from one I saw at 
Ticketmaster when I worked on their VAX operating system.

4) The LZW compression algorithm, ::/LT/OSMain/Compress.CPZ, came from a 
magazine and I implemented it when I worked for Ticketmaster.

5) The adaptive-step-size-Runge-Kutta algorithm, ::/LT/Adam/Ode.APZ, is adapted 
from the book, Numeric Recipies in C.

6) The random number generator is from the book, Numeric Recipies in C.

7) The pilgrim game map is from US Geological Survey.  (Screen captured and 
edited with MS Paint and saved as .BMP and imported into LoseThos and converted 
with a program I wrote.)

8) Tne sheep in AfterEgypt is from http://www.public-domain-photos.com.

9) The FAT32 file system is owned by MicroSoft.

10) A few features were inspired by MATLAB, such as ans in expressions at the 
command-line.  There is a lot of MSDOS , Windows, VAXTMOS (VAX Ticketmaster 
O.S.) and Unix inspiration, too, such as drive letters, command names, etc.

11) I included PCIDevice List File and The King James Bible.

12) Thanks to whoever wrote this CppHtml.CPP.  I'm a novice on web stuff and you 
helped me with html.  See ToHtml.

13) Yahoo Sitebuilder helped with some html code items.

14) I used MagicISO to burn test CD's to help me understand the ISO9660 file 
system format.  I mostly used the ISO9660 spec.

15) I looked at bootable CD boot sects, but didn't learn anything, finding it 
easier to make my own.

16) I think I got my original PC speaker code from Borland C.

17) I found PS/2 keyboard and mouse code on the net and documentation.  My code 
is very different.  I found VGA register info on the net.

18) Thanks to http://www.osdev.net for a couple tips.

19) God told me to stick with 640x480x16 color and kept me from blindly making 
child windows like Windows.  Instead, I made one window per task with no child 
windows.  He also guided my progress, very obviously.

In short, I wrote every one of the 129,738 lines myself, no GPL code, no linkage 
or dependence on other code.  Anyone who says otherwise is being an ass.

* "MSDOS", "Windows", "MovieMaker" "MS Paint" and "FAT32" are trademarks of 
MicroSoft Corp.
* "SiteBuilder" is a trademark of Yahoo! Inc.
* "MagicISO" is a trademark of MagicISO Corp.
* "MATLAB" is a trademark of The Math Works, Inc.
* "FreeDOS" is a trademark of Jim Hall.
* "VAX" is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corp.
* "Linux" is probably a trademark owned by Linus Torvalds.
* "VAXTMOS" is a trademark of Ticketmaster.