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How to make an Operating System
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How to make an Operating System
  • Introduction
  • Introduction about the x86 architecture and about our OS
  • Setup the development environment
  • First boot with GRUB
  • Backbone of the OS and C++ runtime
  • Base classes for managing x86 architecture
  • GDT
  • IDT and interrupts
  • Theory: physical and virtual memory
  • Memory management: physical and virtual
  • Process management and multitasking
  • External program execution: ELF files
  • Userland and syscalls
  • Modular drivers
  • Some basics modules: console, keyboard
  • IDE Hard disks
  • DOS Partitions
  • EXT2 read-only filesystems
  • Standard C library (libC)
  • UNIX basic tools: sh, cat
  • Lua interpreter
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Online book about how to write a computer operating system in C/C++ from scratch.

Caution: This repository is a remake of my old course. It was written several years ago , I'm still refactoring some parts. The original course was in French and I'm not an English native. I'm going to continue and improve this course in my free-time.

Book: An online version is available at (PDF, Mobi and ePub). It was generated using .

Source Code: All the system source code will be stored in the directory. Each step will contain links to the different related files.

Contributions: This course is open to contributions, feel free to signal errors with issues or directly correct the errors with pull-requests.

Questions: Feel free to ask any questions by adding issues or commenting sections.

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What kind of OS are we building?

The goal is to build a very simple UNIX-based operating system in C++, not just a "proof-of-concept". The OS should be able to boot, start a userland shell, and be extensible.

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Introduction

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