Are Operating System difficult to make?

[Platyply]

I was wondering if it was a vastly difficult task to make an operating system. What programming language is used to create one? Which one is the most effiecient and robust for creating an OS?

 

[Delusion2001]

um yeah, lots of work

i would say c++ is used to make OS's?

actually, you cuold combine languages. but i dunno

 

[igiveup]

What part of "21 million lines of code" sounds appealing to you? Of course this is just an example of MS bloatware but if you like that kind of stuff just go work for MS.

 

[mitaiwan82]

yeah making an OS takes a lot of effort from a large team of people...I do testing for AIX and they are constantly updating it....UNIX is written in C for example back in the 70s

 

[FOBSIDE]

once you got an OS you can do what microsoft does. just start deleting lines of code randomly so you get random BSODs. tadah! you just made winME!

 

[Azeroth]

<< once you got an OS you can do what microsoft does. just start deleting lines of code randomly so you get random BSODs. tadah! you just made winME! >>



hahahaha

or erase everything and start all over with new stuff that you're not sure they work properly.

 

[doug]

If you want to look at some smaller OSs there is always Minix. I don't know if there is source for any DOS clones around.

http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html
http://www.minix.org/

There is a textbook that goes along with this &quot;Operating Systems: Design and Implementation&quot; which is often used for courses on the subject.

C is a likely candidate for writing an OS and yes it is difficult at least compared to many programming tasks that you might look at.

 

[rahvin]

<<I don't know if there is source for any DOS clones around.>>

FreeDOS - Open source.