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Sweet! I remember seeing this a while back, but forgot about it. I'll have to try it out. Both the handbook and OS itself look well put together.

Unfortunately, being written in assembly puts it a touch beyond my skills... the only assembly I've ever touched was writing a tiny bootloader, and then I ran fast and far away.

But the handbook is absolutely Good Stuff.

Edit: Learning 'touls'? And I can't edit the title? Guess I could use a little more learning myself...

Edited 2007-12-13 02:22 UTC

...something named after me, and a perfect fit as well, a "simple tool."

LOL

OK, why is it that when I click on the screenshots on that site, Firefox opens them in IE, rather than viewing them itself?

Keep up the great work! This is an excellent project and a great way to wade into the waters of the inner workings of the PC and base OS services.

My only criticism is the fact that you're focusing on 16-bit. I understand your reasoning -- writing a keyboard driver and working with VM hardware is tedious at best -- protected-mode development is important. Perhaps a future MikeOS-32 is project in order to give interested parties a next-step.

With all the bad OS'es and OS paradigms in our lives, I believe this art must be kept alive. Who knows, you may be seeding the builder of a great future OS with this product.

This is a highly interesting project -- an impressive piece of work. I particularly like the quality of the accompanying documentation on the site. My hearty thanks, Mike -- you've obviously put a lot of hard work into this. On behalf of geek-kind -- cheers, mate!!!

There are 32-bit and 64-bit asm OSes:

KolibriOS http://www.kolibrios.org/?&lang=en
M64 http://menuetos.net