 the most
common and have the largest variety of OS's and boot loaders.  However, to
the extent that certain other architectures may need a boot standard and do
not have one already, a variation of this standard, stripped of the
x86-specific details, could be adopted for them as well.<P>

<H3>Operating systems</H3>

This standard is targetted toward free 32-bit operating systems that can be
fairly easily modified to support the standard without going through lots of
bureaucratic rigmarole.  The particular f