A first teaching-oriented operating system
SO1 is a small operating system for the 8086 architecture. It is written in C using the Borland C 5.2 compiler, the TASM32 and JWASM assemblers, and TLINK and JWLINK binders. This toolchain can be used perfectly on Windows in 32-bit and 64-bit versions (in the case of TLINK thanks to the use of the Takeda Toshiya's MSDOS Player).
SO1 is simply intended to be a tool for teaching operating systems in the early stages of study of the mattery. The compilation (on Windows) and the running on Windows (NTVDM) or on virtual machines (qemu, bochs, DOSBox, ...) or on a real machine (a standard PC) natively using a USB pen drive, are tasks that require few minutes, to through a short sequence of simple steps, which makes SO1 an ideal way to start the student in knowledge of the internal functioning of a operating system.
Pedro Pablo López Rodríguez
-- january 2017 --