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Building Your Own Operating System?

Posted by Cliff on from the go-your-own-road dept.

sonictooth asks: "I have dreams of writing a toy operating system, as I know some people have already done in college. Unfortunately, I don't have that opportunity. I was wondering what books (as there are so many) and methods people [have used], either in college or on their own. Amazon is littered with books from varying authors, Tanenbaum in particular, and there are both positive and negative reviews of his books. Does anyone recommend a simple book to walk you through the early stages, and then explain the more complex theories later on."

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  1. The Operating System Says... BOOOOT! by Txiasaeia · · Score: 2, Funny
    "I have dreams of writing a toy operating system..."

    input a "Please pull the string."
    if a=1 print "The cow says... MOOO!"
    if a=2 print "The duck says... QUAAACK!"
    if a=3 print "The horse says... NEEEIGH!"
    end if

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    Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
    1. Re:The Operating System Says... BOOOOT! by trompete · · Score: 2, Funny

      LMAO. Now, I'm going to take the GPL and sell your operating system for $500 a copy, only to get sued because SCO claims to own the word QUAAACK.

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      More than enough BS
    2. Re:The Operating System Says... BOOOOT! by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 1, Funny

      if a=4 DDOS "www.sco.com"

      Damn, how'd that get in there?

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      In Soviet America the banks rob you!
  2. Easy Answer by Quarters · · Score: 2, Funny
    Just read OSNews The average discussion over there is populated by people with plenty of baseless opinions on OS design and very little actual practical knowledge.

    Yup, I figure if you read everything there and then do the exact opposite you should pretty much be on your way to making a really nice OS.

  3. omg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have dreams of writing a toy operating system...

    Linus, is that you?

    So that Ask Slashdot you posted some time ago finally made it through the submission queue?

  4. Re:Do something new! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Later versions of PICK OS were written in C. It is still being used by very stupid companies, and there's still commercial support for it. It should have been dead for decades (originally, PICK was created in the 1960's) but alas...

    Btw, if you ever have access to a PICK machine, logon and type 'echo' without parameters - and see if you can fix your terminal :)