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- From: STDN%MARIST.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Dan Newcombe)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Using Linux to write an OS?
- Date: 18 Dec 1992 23:10:31 -0600
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- Hi all... One more question before I ship out for a week for a
- needed Christmas break. I know that Linus wrote Linux uding the
- minix assembler. As part of a research project, I am planning on
- writing a small graphical operating system (which will blow away X, OS/2
- and Windows...ok, so I'm nuts...) Anyway, just how easy is the assembler
- on linux for doin things like this, as I would need to use all sorts
- of neat protected mode stuff, etc. On DOS, most of the assemblers
- cringe something horrible when trying to something like this. Also,
- where would be a good place to get a hold of a decent reference for
- the assembler?
-
- Thanks and happy holidays...
- -Dan
-
- Dan Newcombe
- stdn@vm.marist.edu kk4d@maristb.marist.edu
- dnewcomb@cybernet.cse.fau.edu And others...
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- - Real programmers like vending machine popcorn. Coders pop it in the
- microwave oven. Real programmers use the heat given off by the cpu.
- They can tell what job is running just by listening to the rate of popping.
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