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ClassicOS
This operating system uses standard operating system concepts used in the 32 bit environment. It will eventually be ported to 64 bit including IA64. This ClassicOS operating system, aims to support major hardware and software technology existing from when the first 32 bit systems appeared on the market through the early 2000's and most of those have been listed below.
Programming
This project uses the C library and Assembly language.
Toolchain
GNU Make 4.2.1 CMake 3.13.4 GNU 8.3.0 gcc (Debian 8.3.0-6) 8.3.0 nasm 2.14 GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.31.1 binutils
For testing, QEMU i386 and TigerVNC/VNCViewer on ::1:5900
Development (Team, etc)
This project will use MIT or the GPL license and will be fully open source.
Ideal situations aside, My goal has always been:
1-2 person working on bootloader 1-2 person working on kernel 1-2 person working on drivers 1-2 person working on issues/bugs 1-2 people working on applications/user-space 1-2 people working on Networking 1-2 people working on memmory issues, stack issues, etc.
at least one person doing hardware and software testing and writing tests in a test framework
At least one major bug fix a week At least one minor buf fix a week At least one new feature a month (or more)
CPU Processor Support
This project initially aims to support all 32 bit Intel and AMD processors Including;
-- Intel -- i386 SX and DX Processors i486 SX and DX Processors Pentium Processors (60 to 120MHz) Pentium Pro Processors Pentium II Processors Pentium II Xeon Processors Pentium III Processors Pentium III Xeon Processors early Pentium 4 Processors (Willamette, Prescott, Northwood)
-- AMD --
AMD k5 AMD K6 AMD am386 AMD am486 Athlon Duron Sempron
Device Support
USB 1.0 USB 1.1 USB 2.0 USB 2.1 SATA 1 UDMA UltraATA 66/100/133 SCSI-1 SCSI-2 SCSI-3 Ultra-2 SCSI Ultra-3 SCSI ESDI MFM/RLL
Booting
BIOS from
- primary hard disk partition
- primary floppy
- ISO 9660 CD-ROM, CD-R,CD-RW,
- DVD
- Removable media (Zip, Jaz, USB, Tape, Syquest, Bernoulli, CF, SmartMedia, SD etc)
Might eventually support GRUB/GRUB2 and/or UEFI/EFI.
Include support for AHCI and ACPI
Bus Support
ISA EISA VESA/VESA Local Bus (VLB) PCI PCI-X PCIe 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 AGP DIN 41416/NuBUS
Hardware support
This OS aims to support major hardware existing from 1985 to early 2k's.
Memory Support
up to 4GB
Features
Has a GUI Has a IDE Has a text editor Has compilers for compiled lanugages (C, C++, C#, Go, Java, Fortran, Pascal, Objective C, Haskell, ADA, Scala, Rust, Zig, Ocaml, Julia, Dart, Erlang, Elixir) Has a Web Browser Has a shell, tty, console, terminal Has interpreters for interpreted languages like python 2 and python 3, JavaScript, BASIC, PHP, etc. Has a git client Has a video, audio editing and playing suite Has a file browser (in GUI) Has debuggers for languages/compilers, etc that output symbols, etc.
Video Support
-- Modes -- CGA EGA VGA SVGA MCGA XGA HGA / Hercules XGA-2 SXGA UXGA WXGA 8514/a VESA SVGA VESA/VLB AGP (1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, Pro) - 66MHz - aka AGP 1X, 2X, 4X, 8X PCI Graphics
-- Resolutions --
Networking
Novell NE1000 Novell NE2000
Drivers
-- Video card(s) -- NIC's (3Com, Intel, etc.) -- Audio
Filesystems
- FAT12
- FAT16/FAT16B/FAT16X
- FAT32/FAT32X
- NTFS
- HPFS
- HFS / HFS+
- ext / ext2 / ext3
- exFAT
- ZFS
- JFS