How to Write an Operating System

This semester SigOPS will hold a series of meetings discussing how to build an operating system from scratch. We provide the structure for developing your Very Own OS, you write the code. It's that simple!

What follows is an outline of the next eight or so SigOPS meetings this semester. We'll be posting all the critical information on these here web pages, so if you miss one (or have missed everything up to this point), no need to worry. Just catch up and come to the next meeting.

Hopefully, any SigOPS member who wants to write an operating system will have done so by the end of this excursion. Stay tuned for information and updates on our progress!

• 0. Introduction
• I. Development Environment
• II. Debugging Methods
• III. Applications
• IV. Memory Management
• V. Multitasking
• VI. Interprocess Communication
• VII. Hardware Interrupts and Drivers (work in progress)
• VIII. Symmetric Multiprocessing (external link)
• IX. References