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Wow. Absolutely astounding. I know a little bit of C, but I wouldn’t have the slightest idea where to begin. Is it even possible for one person to design a bas

• spc476 6y ago
  Yes, depending on how basic, or how long you want to work on it. Gary Kildall did CP-M. Tim Patterson did 86-DOS (later bought by Microsoft and turned into MS-DOS). Terry Davis did TempleOS. And I'm sure there have been other, one-off operating systems written by single programers.
• jdub 6y ago
  Design and build? Yes, very much so. It'll be simple, but it's doable. How useful it becomes is a function of how much time you spend on it, and how many others you get interested in it.
• tralarpa 6y ago
  > but I wouldn’t have the slightest idea where to begin https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page It's in some way easier today than in the past. VMs really make testing much easier. On the other hand, the hardware has become more complex compared to some years ago when you could assume that all you needed was a little bit of assembly code to initialize the 32-bit mode of the x86 CPU and talk to the IDE interface.
• mypalmike 6y ago
  Lol - I found a wikihow page to answer your question. :-D https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Computer-Operating-System https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Computer-Operating-System