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I have to agree with Alboin - it is not doable to write every line of a complete OS from scratch within such short timespan. Comparing to my own os it means that you do over ten-thousand lines of code a day.
So you have to come with a bit more than a just an hard to believe claim.
"Certainly avoid yourself. He is a newbie and might not realize it. You'll hate his code deeply a few years down the road." - Sortie
[ My OS ] [ VDisk/SFS ]
Custom Kernel:
* ... nothing special about that here.
Custom GUI:
* could be very basic or using transplanted video libraries
Full Multitasking:
* not impossible to code in the time claimed
Complete Custom Office Suite:
* a basic notepad and spreadsheet application fulfills that, once again, not impossible.
Internet Browser:
* this is the only one I would claim to be impossible. but, he/she/it could use the term in any given number of ways (graphical or not, compliant or not, full/partial/minimal HTML/JavaScript/etc... support)
32 bit and 64 bit Compatible:
* compatibility mode is not hard to enter and requires very little time to do.
I wouldn't call this impossible, just maybe the wording could be toned down a lot as I have a feeling that the 'features' aren't as advanced or mature as portrait.
quanganht wrote:When you post something, you should have some proofs.
/agree
Give us some screenies. I would.
Solar wrote:It keeps stunning me how friendly we - as a community - are towards people who start programming "their first OS" who don't even have a solid understanding of pointers, their compiler, or how a OS is structured.
Everything he said was true, I have seen it. He brought it to the University and tested it in the lab. His kernel and loaders all fit in the first 512 of a floppy and it has error handling! He wrote his own compiler and it optimizes code, not even one code cave anywhere! His browser is a bit buggy though. It renders images like IE and it doesn't fully support CSS, but it still works pretty well. His GUI is fugly though, but not everyone is an artist. His Office Suite is a true Office Suite, it has a version of excel, word, power point, and outlook; it even looks similar in a lot of ways. He codes very fast and I heard he stays up really late and rarely is away from his computer, so yeah it is true.
I believed you for the first two sentences. But it's impossible to put all that stuff, let alone exception handling in a single sector. Maybe you could fit a shell, file loading, and exception handlers in a CD sector (2048 bytes of data) but definitely not 512 bytes.
Solar wrote:It keeps stunning me how friendly we - as a community - are towards people who start programming "their first OS" who don't even have a solid understanding of pointers, their compiler, or how a OS is structured.
Normally I'm not the kind of person to do this, but...
OrangeOS 95
Solar wrote:It keeps stunning me how friendly we - as a community - are towards people who start programming "their first OS" who don't even have a solid understanding of pointers, their compiler, or how a OS is structured.