I have to create my own operating system for my class.  Does anybody have any ideas?
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This's not an easy issue. I suggest you to use some kind of "starter kit", maybe linux core. And the name can be your initials or something alike.
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JUST COPY THE SET UP OF ARES FROM YOUR MEMORT STICK AND THEN DOWNLAOD IT AND RUN IT....NJOY WITH ARES......
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too many possibitlies.  need more info.  what os do you have?  If windows you need to have at least windows xp
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what kind of software you have windows ?\nyou could look in start> control panel> system> there you will find i think what you need.
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Sorry, not sure how much this will help, but if you have any development tools, you can write one yourself.  There are numerous free system information components on the web that plug into development tools like VB, VC++, VC#, Delphi, etc.\n\nI was actually going to write one for my kids' school, since their PC situation is nightmarish (all different hardware/drivers/O/S'es), but never got around to it.  Most device information, and associated driver info can be found in the registry, and Windows has a few built-in (API) calls to get other info (like processor, memory, etc.).  A webservice with either an Access or SQL Server database on the receiving end would be easy to whip up.
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Great! use microsoft encarta! my school uses this kind of software
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I MAKE MY OWN WITH A COMPUTER PROGRAM
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Why? I run Linux. If I'm going to get a free OS I'll get the superior one, thanks.
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An Operating System (OS) - Linux, Windows, Mac and any other\nGood luck with the installation
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you will have to get yourself a copy of windows, or if you want something free download a small iso version of linux like DSL, burn it onto a cd and run that... nothing else u can do.
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try http://www.oscommerce.com - they will give you step by step open source instructions.
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I'd suggest you go to Puppylinux.com they have a very small linux distro that is made to co-exist with XP. I run Puppy 2.10 myself and got ride of everything from Microsoft. Puppy comes with things that MS makes you pay extra for.
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Not to my knowledge.  Pascal is really not a low enough level language to write an OS in.  Usually it is C, with assembler for the really low level stuff.\n\n-Dio
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One last try, start the system and keep pressing the key "F8" you will come to a screen where it will ask you how you want the system to start........choose the number which corresponds to "last known good configuration"....... if everything is good then you can have your system working....\n\nElse if you can get a help from your firend take his OS CD and reload your system, but you got to remember your systems original OS Key number.........
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buy anyother OS\nsimple\n\nCheers !!!!
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As long as you dont plan to use it as your sole operating system.  It still has its share of bugs...  enough that they've bumped the release date up to Spring 2007.  You'd definitely want to create a partition to install/run it on.
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There's a history here to help you with your research:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system