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Hey, I'm Sam AKA Junior
I've just spent the last couple of hours reading through posts on this forum and realising this is just what I want - a place for weird people like me to talk about making Operating Systems!

I could possibly be the youngest person here but I'm not telling you how old until I have something to show - that way you can't discourage me.

My OS is called JuniorOS, or just Junior when I'm tired. It's main aim is to be 'cool' - I'm not that worried about speed and optimisation, but I'll try. I'm really here to have fun.

I am writing it in C, using as little Assembler as I can. I'm not going to start an argument with you people using Assembler for the whole OS - C is right for me, whatever you use is not really any of my business.

I will have a site with my work so far on when I can find somewhere to host it - anyone offering? My experience wth free hosts still makes me wake up sweating sometimes...

>I could possibly be the youngest person here

You never know.

>that way you can't discourage me

Exactly the opposite. Programming is a great hobby for people of all ages! The nice thing about online forums, though, is that age is never an issue. As far as I know, proving yourself isn't a prerequisite to posting (otherwise, I'm dead in the water! <smile>).

>I'm not going to start an argument with you people using Assembler...

You must have missed some posts in your couple hours of reading because I rarely see such advice given or taken. It's likely that you'll write some of your OS in assembly (like boot sector code) and much of it in C (like memory management algorithms).

> whatever you use is not really any of my business

Why not? This is an OS Development forum. It's about sharing knowledge and information.

> anyone offering?

Try a hosting forum.

Pete

Junior wrote: I need a site for JuniorOS - want to host me?

Try
-www.sourceforge.net
or
-www.angelfire.com/www.coolfreepages.com with www.cjb.net

That is the best you are going to get for free.

pete.piper wrote: Exactly the opposite. Programming is a great hobby for people of all ages! The nice thing about online forums, though, is that age is never an issue. As far as I know, proving yourself isn't a prerequisite to posting (otherwise, I'm dead in the water! <smile>).

Can't agree with you more. The age is irrelevant. However, if a very young person manage to create something far more superior than anything I _ever_ will be able to accomplish, then it might hurt.

Sorry a lot of the stuff I said came out wrong Happens a lot...

I meant to say that I'm using as little Assembler as I possibly can (althought the Boot Loader and stuff is going to be NASM) but I know some people like to use lots of Assembler.

I'm glad to hear you don't think age is an issue. When I told some guys how old I was in #C++ on an IRC network, the responce was 'You are too young to understand the concepts of programming'. They seemed to think every tool I owned was pirated too :/

I might try Angelfire, (is that the Lycos one?) but CoolFreePages' FTP would never work for me

"Assembly" is the programming language, an "Assembler" is the thing that assembles human readable code into hex/binary

Junior wrote: I'm glad to hear you don't think age is an issue.

I also agree with you on this. Age is no issue to judge a person capabilities. You are judged always by your knowledge no matter what your age is.

So the moral of this topic would be like "Its allright to tell your age on this forum Ha Ha". ;D

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I could possibly be the youngest person here...

So what? No matter what your age, you can still make an OS just as good as someone elses.

K.J.

K.J. wrote:So what? No matter what your age, you can still make an OS just as good as someone elses.

Excuse me for going against the grain of this thread, but experience plays a large part in this. A genius aged 10 who does some clever things in QBasic isn't going to write as good an OS as a genius aged 30 who has a PhD in CS, simply because the 30 year old has probably been programming for 20 more years than the 10 year old. In those 20 years you can pick up one or two tricks which the 10 year old would be solving for the first time.

well, Tim is probably right, however, starting to write your own bootsector at '15 instead of '25 is probably a good start for an OS. Starting young gives you more errors in your tries (because you're likely to reproduce errors an elder will have learned in a book), but it also means you'll be much more armored to for real coding at 20 than someone that starts figuring out what an OS is at 20 ...

just MHO

Yes... the opposite side to my argument says that it's easier to learn something aged 15 than it is at 25.

I am also of a very young age, much younger than you all. My age does not produce any problems.

I am older . My age does not produce any problems.
'Til this time.
But in developing operating system, i am a newbie.
Therefore i am a young, unexperienced OS developer.