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Subject: Re: using FreeBSD to create a completely new OS
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> P.S.  Just for general interest, what university?

CUNY grad center (under a special arrangement that allows me to skip
the course work part of grad school) [I have not formally started yet]

As to your complexity issues I do not plan to do the whole OS just the
stuff up to mid-level I/O (for FreeBSD this is also known as user land
I/O)