OS Dev Tutorial 8

Hey there, I really appreciate what you are trying to do here and I hope you finish your series. It seems to me information on operating systems has allways been pretty scarce. Bookmarked!

However, I do think you are targeting the wrong audience. This is the board where many questions invovle "me want make games tell me how!" or "So I have this idea for the next great MMO but I have never programmed before."

In other words most of these people have no business attempting games before a hello world application let alone trying to develop an operating system which is one of the most complicated projects imaginable.

I suggest posting in the general programming thread instead :D

Thanks for the comments[smile]

You do make a valid point reguarding posting in "Beginners" reguarding
new OS Development tutorials.

I originally started posting here as this is ment to be a series
"for beginners". However, while it does refrence readers who has never
programmed (To get them started with the languages), posting new tutorials
(Like this one), can easily make beginner programmers either quit (Imagine
looking through a very technical document thinking of the low level
complexities of programming without much experience); or attempt to develop
an OS with no programming experience. (I do warn my readers in the first
tutorial under the Requirements section)

If anyone has any more suggestions on me posting updates in "For beginners",
feel free to post. If not, I'll give updates in "General programming".

Thanks for the feedback[smile]

The next tutorial has started, and I am quite pleased with it so far[smile]

For the curious, it goes over direct hardware programming, how hardware
communicates with software (At the hardware level depth); and microcontroller
programming.

This includes basic Intel 8042 keyboard microcontroller programming,
And enabling the 20th address line on the data bus to allow access of up
to 4 GB of memory.

It looks like a good series I don't think I've seen many others like it. If you fix up the spelling errors then it will be great.

Yeah it's really cool, I remember looking at this stuff a year ago assuring myself i was going to write my own OS, heh, i wrote an OS that printed "Hello World" through the BIOS. Either way, your tutorials are very cool, but it would be even better if you wiki-ed them, because they could use some editing (spelling and grammar mostly, not to suggest that I'm some sort of grammar god or anything)

cheers
-Dan