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if it's really worth building an OS when I could just make a virtual machine type OS. If the VM was built in assembly and the OS was built in the VM's fake assembly then I don't think it would be too bad, or maybe not even slow at all.
I just wonder if in the end it is really worth all the hard work to build a real OS since after all the "user" of the OS doesn't really care how it was built or what it was built on but rather how good and useful it is. I think Microsoft may have had this idea in mind when they made Win95 since it's built ontop DOS they kindof cheated but in the end it still became something very useful to many people even though it was built ontop of sloppyness.
Besides, VM's have lots of stuff going for them. One of them being the ability to program software that- once compiled will run on any hardware as long as the hardware has the VM software running on its native hardware. Kindof like Java in a way but more in a OS kindof way

hi ,

'it's really worth building an OS.' == To be honest I love creating my OS. The OS I am developing is not for the satisfaction for others. I have the contentment and satisfaction of doing 'system level programming' and 'making my machine run on something that I wrote (Not M$ OS)'. I don't have to care if others(non-techie's) don't understand the complexity involved in deving an OS. Mate it is the difficulty involved that gives me the kick to develop my OS.

It helps one to understand ur box better - I have loads of stuff after starting on my OS (Mostly from OSDEV.net).

modshah