Re: Writing an OS

From: Sybren Stuvel (sybrenUSE_at_YOURthirdtower.imagination.com)
Date: 11/04/04 

Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 14:07:18 +0100

Darrell Blake enlightened us with:
> I'm thining of writing an OS for my final year project at University but
> I havn't got a clue where to start.

minix

> I was hoping someone on here could give me some good places on the
> net to look at or advise me on some good books to read on the
> subject?

Any book on the subject by Andrew Tanenbaum, Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam.

> The problem with Universities these days is that they only teach
> high level stuff and I imagine it would be pretty tough to write an
> OS in Java

That would be pretty impossible without a CPU that can execute Java
bytecode.

> Ideally, I would want to write one in C++ as that's my main language
> of choice (plus, I've ever even looked at C) what is your opinion on
> this?

C

Sybren 

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