CybOS

Using a disk image is very easy: download the file, mount it through a so-called “loopback” device and your OS will see the image as it was an real harddisk, CDR or DVD. When I needed to …

Memory is something (almost) no computer can do without. In todays world the saying goes: the more memory the better. But the way computers uses memory is very different than they did only a few …

Compression is used all around us every single day. You (or your girlfriend/wife most likely) folds your clothes nicely so they all fit in your closet. When recycling, you flatten the cardboard …

Welcome to the first part of CybOS. We talk a bit about the bootsector. From part 2 on, everything is “kernel based”, which means we have setup the system and jumped to our main kernel. …

Somewhere in 1998 or even earlier, I started my own little project in creating a - functional - Operating System from scratch. Not a linux clone and not a MS-DOS wannabe. Just a simple OS that is …