Gavin Robert Brewer wrote:
Yes I have gone beyond the subject, but what I wish to create is an 'OS on a chip'. Unfortunately for you guys, you get all my spam, since the OpenBIOS are the only people who can support me on this venture.
=) Mee tooo! To an extent... I realize that the low-level istruction set of the processor should only be known to the firmware of the system. The firmware, in turn, should support safe and typed languages so that layers of hardware complexity such as paging systems and protection can be eliminated.
Instead of putting a filesystem in the BIOS (PUKE!!!) I would design the filesystem so that the first few blocks on the volume contains the code to operate the filesystem! This way any volume can be put in any computer and accessed by ANY operating system. =)
x86 is not a viable platform for OS development, I have found. =( I would like to start a company to design and devel hardware that doesn't suck.
I'm using this yahoo glub:
http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/techieknights
as a staging area for my efforts. Right now the biggest issue is the business plan. I have about 50% of it, I need all the help I can get to do the other half. =)