Re: Creating an operating system
From: Corey Murtagh (emonk_at_slingshot.no.uce)
Date: 05/25/04
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Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 08:32:39 +1200
Robert Stankowic wrote:
> Mel Wilson wrote:
>
> [....]
>
>> I just found a copy of Tanenbaum's "Operating Systems -
>>Design and Implementation" <gloat>at a library book sale for
>>$.50</gloat>. I'm only a couple of chapters in, but it
>>looks like you'd do well to read the general and theoretical
>>discussion, especially if you can't decide where to start.
>
> No. Learn it by heart, forwards and backwards, then get all the
> literature you can get on this subject and learn it by heart as well.
> After that analyze the linux kernel source in all details, and _then_
> decide how to start.
> Seriously, what you are planning is about the most difficult
> programming task one could choose.
That depends on a lot of things. If you're trying to create a
full-featured OS with all the bells and whistles on a monolithic kernel,
then yeah, it's tough. If all you want is a simple OS with a
stripped-down microkernel, then not so much... I've written
/applications/ more complex than that :)
-- Corey Murtagh The Electric Monk "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!"
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