Personal Question

[xxchrisxx]

This may or may not be off topic ???, but I was wondering if any of you would share your age? I'm interested in seeing the variation of ages (if there is one) of our modern amateur OS developers

[KieranFoot]

I'm 16 years old and i'v been programming scince i was 7.
I started with QB then VB, C, C++, ASM. Plus i'm studying software development as part of my electronics engineering cource at college.

[mr. xsism]

16 years old and i have been coding since maybe i was 10 or so. I never really got into programming until i figured out how it worked, then i was hooked. Started with Qbasic and a book my great grandma bought me that had like 4 pages on how BASIC worked. Then i started reading the builtin BASIC docs, which at the time where hard to read for me. i eventually GOT into easier stuff like HTML,JS,PHP. After that i started C,C++, asm. At taht time i was 14. i started game dev which lasted about 6months and i made like 3 games. Then i started osdev. Been doing it for almost 2 years.

[proxy]

I'm 23, I've been programming since I was about 10 I'd say.

Following the trend of giving a brief history of development, here we go .

Languages I know are: C, C++, C#, Java, Javascript, Eiffel, BASIC, Visual Basic, x86 ASM, VAX ASM, MIPS ASM, Lisp, Perl, Pascal, PHP.

Though my personal favorites are C and C++

[xxchrisxx]

Well I guess I can do myself. It's nothing specialy really; I'm 15 and i've been "into" computers for I can't remember how long. I started off doing web design (PHP, HTML, XHTML, XML)and then later moved onto *NIX stuff (NetBSD, FreeBSD and Linux) and networking (DNS, DHCP, routing). I was programming in C off and on then and only seriously got into it when I stumbled accross OS development. I plan on staying with OS dev for some time to come, and to get a firm grasp on C/C++ and Assembly.

[Schol-R-LEA]

I'm 35, and have been studying issues regarding OS development (among other things) on and off since 1989. I first got interested in computers in the early 1980s, but didn't have a chance to study them seriously until my second year of college.

I have done programming work in FoxPro, C, C++, Perl, PerlScript, Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic, MS-Access VBA, and VBScript; I have also done extensive markup work in HTML and XHTML and some markup language design in XML. Other languages which I know well include Scheme, Pascal, Modula-2, and x86 assembly language; I am familiar to a some extent with Oberon, Ada, Common Lisp, Smalltalk, Self,Python, Prolog, APL, Eiffel, Sather, Fortran, Cobol, Intercal , and the assembly languages of the 6502, 680x0, PPC, ARM, and PIC 16x processors. Because of my broad background, I can usually pick up all but the most esoteric languages in a few hours.

I have written programs under Primos (so long ago I hardly remember it), AppleDOS, MS-DOS, MacOS, MS-Windows, BSD Unix, and Linux.

[Pype.Clicker]

I'm 24 and i'm interrested in OS development for about 8 years now (yep. I started in '95 .. guess why

[BI lazy]

i'm 28+3/4 and 've been with computers since I was 12. i do OS development since November 2000.

It's cool to watch BlueIllusion grow beneathe my hands... It's like painting a picture or writing a book (both I 've done already and found VERY satisfying)

Now, for the sake of earning a living, I am working as a programmer too, so one of my hobbies is my day to day occupation too. *gg* I think, thats amongst the best things that can happen to one.

STay safe folks and try in a pan a steak to fry.

[frank]

I'm 16 years old, I'm doing an os with my friend (15) from Austria.
(http://xope.sf.net)

We currently have a basic C libary, an ATA driver and some other basic stuff.
We currently aim to make a basic working os first, then do all the stuff.

I started thinking of osdev when I was 8/9. And did some at 14.
Now I'm seriously coding at 16.

[xxchrisxx]

Cool stuff guys...

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It's cool to watch BlueIllusion grow beneathe my hands... It's like painting a picture or writing a book (both I 've done already and found VERY satisfying)

BI lazy, does BlueIllusion have a website?

[Ozguxxx]

a/s/l: 21/sm/TR ;D I was shocked when I first saw I computer(like oh my god, what the ???? is this...) when I was 6 years old, since then I am inside programming stuff, I can remember my first pc was booting into basic and I was doing programming there. So I am doing about 9 years of passive mode programming and about 6 years of active mode programming for now. I started os development thing in 2001 I think,???

PS: NO, sm is not sadomashocist, it stands for single male.

[BI lazy]

@xxchrisxx:

Well, you can go to my personal collection of braindumps in the web: www.distantvoices.org

One page in it is dedicated to OS dev in general and a little bit to BlueIllusion in special: there are some files, diskimages and a source tree to be downloaded. But I don't grant you'll be happy with it for My personal collection of braindumps in the web is kept in german language (rather the austrian version of it), 'thou' you'll find some tutorials lingering around which I've written in english.

here it is:
www.distantvoices.org/html/os.html

I might give BlueIllusion a very own web when it is able to access and manipulate a file system (do some experiments with ext2 fs now).

stay safe.

[DarylD]

Me, I'm 30 (virtually!). I've been coding for about 20 years now, been seriously into OS thinking and development for about 3 years.

As is the case with many, I first got into coding doing Basic/Assembly Language on the old 8bit Microcomputers. Boy, where they good days!

[Pype.Clicker]

Me, I'm 30 (virtually!).

30 using the Virtual Clock Algorithm ?? you're not counting the time spent in 'sleep mode' or something ?



off-topic: I'm back from Japan, now

[DarylD]

No, just mentally preparing to leave my twenties!!!

30 in a couple of months.