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Want To Write Your Own OS?

Posted by Hemos on from the a-trivial-task dept.

DJSlakoR writes "Looks like the Nocturnal Network has a tutorial on how to get started coding your own operating system. A very interesting read!"

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  1. How to write your own OS: by 42forty-two42 · · Score: 5, Funny
    1. Copy SCO code
    2. ???
    3. Profit!
  2. I originally read the subject... by metamatic · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...as "Write Your Own OS/2".

    That particular dead horse is still having a shallow pool of its putrid entrails beaten though.

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  3. much easier way by zaqattack911 · · Score: 3, Funny

    My friend and I are trying to develop a special C function library that will allow people to make their own customizable O/S. By using a single function... called the doOperatingSystem Function. Prototyped as follows:

    void doOperatingSystem(char *name,char *color);

    Pretty snazzy huh?!

  4. Re:"you PoS"? How intelligent! I'm impressed! by p2sam · · Score: 2, Funny

    no... you just reminded of the first OS I have written, it's named PoS. It wasn't very good, nor secure, nor even practical. But I did have loads of fun doing it, and learnt some real-time programming concepts. There's nothing like spending fourty hours on fourty lines of assembly to get the context switching to work.

  5. Why not? by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Emacs did

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    1. Re:Why not? by CTalkobt · · Score: 4, Funny

      >>Emacs would make a great operating system, now if only someone would write a decent text editor for it.

      They have. You simply have to invoke a shell from within Emacs and invoke vi.

      *ducks*

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  6. Re:an even better tutorial... by sevensharpnine · · Score: 2, Funny

    Afterwards, perhaps you should focus your abilities towards inventing something in the transportation industry. I was thinking of something suitible for assisting heavy transport, perhaps a device that could allow the user to experience less of a burden when carrying things over a distance. Maybe it could offset the normal difficulties found in dragging our carts on the ground. It would have to be a balancing mechanism that would generate no extra force due to shape as its moved across the ground. Just an idea.

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