How did they make windows?

You really need to rephrase that, because it's sort of bugging me. First off, on embedded systems, a simple OS isen't something that takes tons of money or is beyond the reach of an individual. In fact, my book, Programing Embedded Systems in C/C++, goes over creating a whole, simple, OS for an embedded system towards the end of the book.

As for a neat example of an OS, created by a relativly small team, that is free and most likly will run on your computer: http://www.menuetos.net. I'm sure they put a lot of time into it though

EDIT: What's really cool about minute OS though is that it fits on a single floppy, yet does so much.

 

http://shellfish-os.com/forums/index.php

New support forums, will make it better soon, skins ect, web site, ect.


Sign up or what not . if it boots up and installs, i'll put pictures there . but along way yet.

Many thanks for all your help.

Teh-Uploader.

edit: want your software in Shellfish? contact me or go on the forum .

 

reverse engineer alien technology dude

 

Well, a good source of information about how Windows was born is Raymond Chen's blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/), he is one of the oldest people that have worked on Windows OS.

Recently, he posted a link to a site (http://jkeyes.com/2006/04/how_windows_was_born.php) that has an article about how Windows was born, written by a MS programmer.
I was thinking about pasting parts of the article but I really don't know what the most interesting parts would be to you.

See also http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/search.aspx?q=history+windows for all posts about history of Windows

 

Another little update:

Built the kernal, the boot is beening changed, building a GUI soon, and we need a desktop grapics' which my friend is doing.

Built the Auto update program connecting to my server and your computer.

to be build:

Firewall
GUI
boot (to be made better / faster)
Anti Virus Software.
Grapthics.
and some cool games .

Many thanks.
Nick.

 

Yeah that's what I was thinking, assembly language.

 

Ok, maybe the Kernel of the Windows operating system has some assembly optimizations but the rest is pure C and the Windows applications are C++ and some Visual Basic.

It's incredibly hard to make an operating system like Windows only in ASM mostly because 5% of the time you add code and 95% of the time you debug and test code. When all the code is ASM the add code percent is below 1%...

Just think that there were about 4-500 programmers working on Windows XP, just adding features on the Windows 2000 base.