Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 19th Jul 2002 04:25 UTC
Let's face it, the most important, truly alternative, hobby operating systems that are somewhat usable today are three: MenuetOS, SkyOS and AtheOS. All three are hobby, open source OSes, written from people who enjoy coding low level programming. Read more about the differences between these OSes and which one you might want to try out.
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I used to write tons of assembly way back when on my old 8086/286 for sheer speed. After all working with an 8Mhz clock demands maximum speed. But this was also in the days when one-man-bands could write entire games/apps on thier own in assembly. I still remember my first stab at 32bit protected mode coding, it was like heaven with such a massive address space.
But things change, there is no way I would go back to the hell that assembly becomes on largish projects. Its just not maintainable. I know its a great feeling knowing that registers and memory is being done as efficiently as possible but C/C++/et al do generate pretty good code now, the only advantage assembly really has is executable size.
Needs change, I used to assembly to speed up graphics operations (blitting/parallex scrolling and other tricks) but these days with the advent of GPU's more powerful than the main processor this is just not realistic.
Anyhow...how the hell do you code assembly for something like the Itanium??!!!