Text based OS

[Mechduino]

Hello,
I mean to create a text based OS, and I mean OS in the loosest sense of the term, I want to create a basic start up and show up text set up. Anyway, I want to design it in C++, obviously since I am on this area, so any help you want to give would be nice.
Thanks,
-Mechduino

[Peter87]

If you create an OS from scratch you will have to use some assembly. There will be no C++ compilers that can compile for your OS. Easiest is probably to port GCC or some other existing C++ compiler to your OS. There will be a lot of work to get something working.

You say "OS in the loosest sense" so maybe it is much easier than this. I don't really know what you mean :p

[Disch]

Wasn't there some big website dedicated to OS dev? Someone linked to it on here before.... chrisname maybe?

[strongdrink]

Yup... http://forum.osdev.org/
What are you building the OS for? XP, or school?

[1vRz3TCk]

As you can't have a thread about writing an OS without a reference to "the dinosaur book"...

Operating System Concepts
by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin, Greg Gagne

[strongdrink]

or
http://os-book.com/