Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 19:25:50 +0000 From: "Welcome, Traiano" <welcomet@amazon.com> To: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Subject: RE: Writing a (BSD like) Operating Systems From Scratch Message-ID: <8F56C8EF8265DF489B64A19B10910AC7025E3E82@ex10-mbx-14001.ant.amazon.com> In-Reply-To: <20130524183350.GY11165@numachi.com> References: <8F56C8EF8265DF489B64A19B10910AC7025C53B2@ex10-mbx-14001.ant.amazon.com> <201305241340.r4ODcju4009740@fire.js.berklix.net> <8F56C8EF8265DF489B64A19B10910AC7025DF4B3@ex10-mbx-14001.ant.amazon.com> <20130524183350.GY11165@numachi.com>
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Hi Brian Indeed I have, these particular three sites led to my formulation of those= questions (see verdict inline): > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Reichert [mailto:reichert@numachi.com] > Sent: 24 May 2013 20:34 > To: Welcome, Traiano > Cc: Julian H. Stacey; freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Writing a (BSD like) Operating Systems From Scratch >=20 > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 04:57:44PM +0000, Welcome, Traiano wrote: > > Hi Julian > > > > Thanks, any response is appreciated, here's mine: >=20 > I typed into Google: "how to write an OS", and got lots of hits. > Have you explored them? >=20 > http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigops/roll_your_own/ Nice general outline, and I could possibly adopt the broad development appr= oach there, but stuff like the following puts me completely off: - "the testbed needs to be a 386 with at least 2 megs of ram an a network a= nd video card" - "gcc-2.7.2.3 Later version will not work with c++ due to exception handli= nd" (Seems a little too dated, I'd like an example based on current hardware an= d current toolchains) >=20 > http://mikeos.berlios.de/write-your-own-os.html >=20 This is the best kickstarter for beginners I've found to date, definitely a= resource I'll be using more often. > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/254149/how-do-you-write-a- > basic-operating-system >=20 Tanenbaum's books are classic. The challenge now (for me) is to apply the t= heory and examples in the book to something I've built and understand from = the ground up. >=20 > -- > Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> > BSD admin/developer at large
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