Thanks for your suggestions Prasanna. I surely will take these points into 
consideration.

On Monday, October 14, 2013 3:24:24 PM UTC+5:30, Prasanna Kumar T S M wrote:
>
> > boot a computer system. Creating a minimal bootloader, 
> > Actual LOC(Lines of Code) to be minimal.[Yet not decided on that, but 
> surely 
> > to be minimal as compared to other Os like Minix, Linux and GeekOS]. 
> > Source file to be minimal. 
> > will have a CUI(Character User Interface) rather than GUI(Graphical User 
> > Interface). 
> > We will create a uni-programming system. 
> > A command line interpreter as in Linux and DOS operating systems. 
> > A monolithic kernel 
>
> I would suggest some thing different. You can write a OS which does 
> not work on hardware. No assembly, no real machine booting etc. Write 
> an application which will look like a OS and expose system calls. The 
> app will get CPU time from the real OS, you need not boot the actual 
> CPU. This way you can work on just process management, memory 
> management and other parts. Once that is in good shape you can add the 
> hardware part and make it work on real hardware. Just a suggestion. 
>
> Regards, 
> PrasannaKumar 
>

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