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:reich...@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 > > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 04:57:44PM +0000, Welcome, Traiano wrote: > > Hi Julian > > > > Thanks, any response is appreciated, here's mine: > > I typed into Google: "how to write an OS", and got lots of hits. > Have you explored them? > > http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigops/roll_your_own/ Nice general outline, and I could possibly adopt the broad development approach 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 and video card" - "gcc-2.7.2.3 Later version will not work with c++ due to exception handlind" (Seems a little too dated, I'd like an example based on current hardware and current toolchains) > > http://mikeos.berlios.de/write-your-own-os.html > 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 > Tanenbaum's books are classic. The challenge now (for me) is to apply the theory and examples in the book to something I've built and understand from the ground up. > > -- > Brian Reichert <reich...@numachi.com> > BSD admin/developer at large _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"