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Creating an operating system
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 11:00 pm
by et_the_geek
This question may seem stupid, but i have never in my life programmed an operating system before.. The closest ive came to programming an operating system was programming operating envornments. Ok heres my question: Am I able to construct an operating system using Qbasic? If so, what site can I goto to obtain that information?
Re: Creating an operating system
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 11:00 pm
by Legend
Qbasic? As in that thing that looks similiar to the ms dos editor? Well, you could write parts of it, when you create an interpreter that runs on os level for it - so I guess it does not what you want!
The biggest problem with that program is that it got no compiler, a basic compiler that generates native x86 code would be very helpful!
Re: Creating an operating system
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 11:00 pm
by bubach
IF you program it in some dialect that produces .exe files ( like powerbasic or something), and can be linked with ( or use ) external assembly libs that take care of all the low level stuff, then yes.
The problem is that if you want to do it in qbasic you most likely doesn't know **** about assembly or any other language..
