Writing a (BSD like) Operating Systems From Scratch

[Welcome, Traiano]

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 at numachi.com]
> Sent: 24 May 2013 20:34
> To: Welcome, Traiano
> Cc: Julian H. Stacey; freebsd-hackers at 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.


> 
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> Brian Reichert				<reichert at numachi.com>
> BSD admin/developer at large