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Re: AlfOS
« Reply #15 on: September 01, 2010, 11:16:38 pm »
Wow. Very impressive, and one of the many things on this forum that reminds me just how little I really know.
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Re: AlfOS
« Reply #16 on: April 25, 2011, 02:35:15 pm »
OK, let's compile DF for this thing.
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Re: AlfOS
« Reply #17 on: April 26, 2011, 12:50:23 am »
I'd rather see this have a compiler first.
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Re: AlfOS
« Reply #18 on: April 26, 2011, 12:59:12 am »
Be the first OS to be designed around clang from the ground up with 100% klee coverage!
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Re: AlfOS
« Reply #19 on: April 26, 2011, 07:36:46 pm »
Err... Alf, IS this compatible with any compilers as of yet?
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Quote from: Burnt Pies on June 13, 2011, 01:18:55 pm
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« Reply #20 on: April 28, 2011, 04:54:50 am »
its x86, so it is compatible with C, C++, and any other language that can compile direct to machine code.

what I doubt it has at the moment, is any form of memory management (no malloc for you) or any standard libraries

http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page
The OS-dev wiki has a few tutorials to get up to this point


Getting video working is easy, takes about an hour or so. (VGA is a simple standard to support, giving you full 2D support, without hardware acceleration, or > 640x480 res)
Making libraries and the OS functions to support them: months.

I've personally built a few things like this before, but never really had the drive to get past the first few elements.

Still, it is surprisingly easy to get started
« Last Edit: April 28, 2011, 05:02:41 am by Googolplexed »
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