I'm not sure if this is the right spot to put this. I was wondering how would you create and operating system like linux or windows or novell. What programs would you use. I've always wondered how it was done. I would love to learn to create my own.
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Jump to PostJust to clear something up that I saw earlier in the thread. Linux was not a one man job and was not built from scratch. Linus created the original Intel 386 Linux kernel based on MINIX a simple unix like OS created by A. Tanenbaum, a computer science professor. MINIX …
Jump to Postyeah, atm im working on:
*some sort of command interpreter.
*some sort of graphics abstraction layer which should be easier than adressing the video
memory directly. also, the ability to scroll up and down the screen would be nice*some sort of filesystem - in comp/sci ive been studying linked …
Jump to PostThere's always freedos if you want a simple open source OS to go look at.
Jump to PostIf you wanted something equivalent to maybe MS-DOS, and working in asm, my guess would be that you are thinking of at least two years, and perhaps 40,000 lines of code.
:) im getting most of the basis for it from an book i found in the libary, and from …
Jump to Post"how and what software will you use to create your own operating system?"
First and foremost you will need an assembler, a C compiler, a decent text editor, bochs (a virtual machine), virtual box (another virtual machine), and various small utilities, such as a hex dump program, which you …
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