Creating OS

[shahar]

Can I program an operating system in Qbasic or Pascal language?!

 

[mxnerd]

Absolutely not. These languages can't read/write computer's hardware.

Most OSes are written in a combination of assembly, C and C++.

 

[TheELF]

You can use assembly/machine code within qbasic it's just that it's a more awkward method than using the other languages and also qbasic is less optimized, but there is nothing stopping you from doing it.

Assembly Tutorials - Pete's QBasic / QuickBasic Site

 

[igor_kavinski]

Can I program an operating system in Qbasic or Pascal language?!

Apparently, you can.

Operating Systems written in FPC - Free Pascal wiki

wiki.freepascal.org

Qbasic would be a lot more complicated and too much work. You would need to create a low level API that your high level OS functions would need to use to access hardware and that low level API development needs someone pretty well-versed in assembly language. You are likely looking at years of development ahead of you if you go this route.

 

[Kaido]

Check out Linux From Scratch: (LFS)

LFS Project Homepage