Windows like OS built by 1 person? Hard, even for someone with extensive OS knowledge. You would need to spend years first learning how OS's work before even undertaking this task. Then you are 1 person trying to design what took dozens to hundreds of engineers YEARS to build. Most likely you wouldn't have any peer review to bounce ideas off of or critique your code.kingmohd84 wrote:It doesn't have to support a wide range of hardware, I just want to know how difficult it is to have a Windows like OS fully working, even if it is limited to a short range of hardware and I was wondering why its not happening although there are a lot of coders out there.
They are very specific purpose OS's, light-weight for specific tasks. For the most part you would never use them.kingmohd84 wrote: I know smaller OSes exist like Haiku , but I never understand why are they there and why would I want to use them.
It makes no sense to attempt to write one from scratch with no knowledge of any of the tasks involved, with the aim of making it BETTER than what already exists. I might as well attempt to make a car that is better than anything on the market, by myself, creating every part by hand with no previous knowledge of any of the tasks involved. That should give you an idea of how insane your idea sounds.kingmohd84 wrote: now 2 questions come to mind,
1) Why would any one write a new OS? is it possible to write one from scratch that would be better than what is currently available? Does the world need a new OS? Or what we have now is the best thing human technology could get to , and any new OS will simply be mimicking what we already have?
What additional tasks do you want solved that your OS will do that others don't, or won't by the time you are finished? The best theoretical computer is the quantum computer.
