Introduction

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 as one of my first projects when I was in High Schoolarrow-up-right, 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 http://samypesse.gitbooks.io/how-to-create-an-operating-system/arrow-up-right (PDF, Mobi and ePub). It was generated using GitBookarrow-up-right.

Source Code: All the system source code will be stored in the srcarrow-up-right 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.

You can follow me on Twitter @SamyPessearrow-up-right or GitHubarrow-up-right.

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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