Best Educational Operating System For Study?

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mudge picture mudge · Mar 27, 2010 · Viewed 7.9k times · Source

What's the best operating system to study in order to write your own x86 operating system from scratch?

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Martin picture Martin · Mar 27, 2010

It might be difficult to comprehend the source for an entire OS all at once. The tutorials over at osdev.org have a few "bare bones" code samples to get you started.

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