I've always been curious about how things work. When I was little, I annoyed my parents with millions of
questions. Why is the sky blue? How does water come out of the tap when you open it? Maybe I was born without the
mental switch that lets you be happy with using something, without trying to figure out how it works.
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I thought this link should be mentioned:
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigops/roll_your_own/
It was an attempt to make a "how-to" for writing an OS. Never finished, though.