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Thinking of a name for an Operating System...

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:27 am
by Perica
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Re:Thinking of a name for an Operating System.....

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 6:09 am
by Whatever5k
What about AssOS?
@$$ stands for Assembler ;)

Re:Thinking of a name for an Operating System.....

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 9:22 am
by Peter_Vigren
Perica Senjak wrote: The First thing i want to do is think of a name for my Operating System! Yes, i know that the name is not Important, but i just want to think of a name now, and get it over-and-done with.
You're a bit like me :-) I also needed a name... since it is a bit annoying to never have a name to refer too when talking about the OS... but because I really couldn't make up one I thought I should have a developement name under the developement... maybe something for you too? :-)

Re:Thinking of a name for an Operating System.....

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 9:33 am
by Peter_Vigren
Perica Senjak wrote: I have also transferred my Operating System to Pure-Assembler (yes yes, i know that you people think it's a bad idea -- But there were too many reasons weighing over C/C++

First of all, I agree with you. I code in Assembler too... It is low level and has a nice syntax. I really don't like the C/C++-syntax...

Re:Thinking of a name for an Operating System.....

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 10:35 am
by Whatever5k
I don't think you'll get far using only assembler

Re:Thinking of a name for an Operating System.....

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 10:48 am
by _mark
Why not use your name - it has a pretty good ring to it

Senjak OS

Initials Maybe:
PS or PSOS or
PASOS (PericaAssemblerSenjakOperatingSystem)
I kind of like that one

Or use part of your name:

Add the IX like unix
senjix
jakix
perix
That is the method I used

Use your imagination
Good Luck

Re:Thinking of a name for an Operating System.....

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 4:42 pm
by stonedzealot
I thought of the things I want the OS to embody, and looked up the Latin word for it...I got Viridis (green, vibrant and youthful) because it's a new OS and my first try.

Since it's assembler, you might want to try small, fast, cryptic ;) or any of the other things you want your OS to embody...

Re:Thinking of a name for an Operating System.....

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 4:46 pm
by _mark
abless wrote: I don't think you'll get far using only assembler
Wasn't the first version of DOS written in pure assembler in someone's basement in just a couple weeks. Why would you think it cannot be done? There are many OSs out there done in pure asm. I think even most of Win95 was ASM wasn't it? I heard something along those lines many moons ago anyway.

_mark()

Mark

Re:Thinking of a name for an Operating System.....

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:24 pm
by Peter_Vigren
abless wrote: I don't think you'll get far using only assembler
That's just absurd. Assembler is a programming language as all others. But more powerful.

Re:Thinking of a name for an Operating System.....

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:26 pm
by Peter_Vigren
wangpeng wrote: I thought of the things I want the OS to embody, and looked up the Latin word for it...I got Viridis (green, vibrant and youthful) because it's a new OS and my first try.
I myself have thought about that. But I haven't figured a good word out translate that don't sound weird once translated...

Re:Thinking of a name for an Operating System.....

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 1:51 am
by distantvoices
gonna christen your os? *ggg*

Perica, may be you can call your os KoalaOS? *bg*

Re:Thinking of a name for an Operating System.....

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 4:20 am
by DarylD
Latin is good, my OS is called Valeo, from the latin dictionary:

valeo : valui : valiturus : to be strong, have power, be well.

Daryl.

Re:Thinking of a name for an Operating System.....

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 4:47 am
by Whatever5k
Wasn't the first version of DOS written in pure assembler in someone's basement in just a couple weeks. Why would you think it cannot be done?
BEEP - I didn't say it couldn't be done, of course it can.
That's just absurd. Assembler is a programming language as all others. But more powerful.
Actually, assembler is a low-level machine language - C, Pascal & Co. are high-level programming languages.
Anyway, I think you got me wrong. Of course you can program a OS in assembler - but I don't think you'll succeed. It's *really* ugly to write a total Operating System in assembler, it's a d*amn work. It's much more effective to use higher levle programming languages like C.
That's what I think, and many others do. You're going to be frustrated ;)

Re:Thinking of a name for an Operating System.....

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 7:02 am
by Peter_Vigren
abless wrote:
Actually, assembler is a low-level machine language - C, Pascal & Co. are high-level programming languages.
Anyway, I think you got me wrong. Of course you can program a OS in assembler - but I don't think you'll succeed. It's *really* ugly to write a total Operating System in assembler, it's a d*amn work. It's much more effective to use higher levle programming languages like C.
That's what I think, and many others do. You're going to be frustrated ;)
It may not more efficient to use a high-level language. The code size may shrink alot by using low-level. And speed can also be boosted by doing so. It may take a lot of more time but it will still be more efficient.

And I get frustrated whenever I try to program so I can live with that. One thing more, I feel comfortable with the Assembly-syntax and cannot stand C. So I program better in Assembly than in C.

Re:Thinking of a name for an Operating System.....

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 8:31 am
by Tim
_mark() wrote:Wasn't the first version of DOS written in pure assembler in someone's basement in just a couple weeks.
Yes, but by today's standards, DOS is virtually nothing. It's just a FAT file system driver, a device interface and a set of helper routines.