Operating System Development

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Greetings,
I am a second year 4th semester computer science student and I want to make an OS for my fourth year major project. I intend to write the kernel in c or c++ as these are the languages I am most comfortable with. I do not know assembly.
I want the OS to be like the DOS i.e. without a GUI and the OS should perform the most basic of operations like make a file , delete a file and display a file, that is it.

Please could somebody guide me about where should i start from, what all should I study and the recommended books.

Thanks.

Posted 19-Jan-13 16:58pm

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Updated 20-Jan-13 4:31am

Andreas Gieriet

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Abhinav S · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-19T17:23:00

Solution 1

Start with concepts mentioned here -
http://www.osnews.com/story/2691[^]
http://himmele.blogspot.in/2011/07/build-your-own-operating-system.html[^]
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/european-technology/build-your-own-os-using-the-raspberry-pi/1167[^]

Posted 19-Jan-13 17:23pm

Abhinav S

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Jan-13 1:54am

Well, some interesting articles; but hardly enough. It needs learning of a lot of fundamentals, and, importantly, CPU architecture and programming. It seems to me, it does not look like OP is serious enough... Anyway, a 5.
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Abhinav S 20-Jan-13 5:27am

Thank you. Yes indeed, building an OS is a complex task.

[no name] 20-Jan-13 6:13am

thank you Abhinav and i am serious about making the OS. since here almost every other guy submits an e-trading website as his major project so really wanna stand out.

Andreas Gieriet · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-20T04:27:00

You talk about a file system, not an OS. The file system is just a part of an OS (please note that an OS does not necessarily need to have a file system - see many embedded system OS).

Implementing a file system is kind of useless (you have no benefit in re-inventing your own or re-implementing e.g FAT16, etc.).

Try to find a more rewarding project topic.

If you want to do low-level stuff, you may design and implement a boot loader (maybe with some useful specific feature)?
Think of what C/C++ is useful for (compared to Java/C# or web based server/client stuff): low-level processing, things that must run fast (not going over a virtual machine), ...
You might invent something that can be ported: e.g. your own shell with some embedded control flow language that can be ported to Windows/Unix/Linux/iOS/Android/Win Mobile/... - add a mechanism to add specific commands so that you can extend the shell with OS specific commands.
...

Cheers
Andi