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/aosg/ Alternative Operating System General

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Because it's fun to think about what could have been or what might be.

After a thread on /g/, one anon expressed an interest to turn this into a general, and here are some notes to keep to build up a FAQ.

Threads

OP has not yet mastered 4chan posting, so there is as yet no easy way to locate old threads. Manual list:

List of Notable Alternative Operating Systems

Operating Systems for Amiga

Plan 9 Family

OS Written in Assembly

  • https://www.menuetos.net MenuetOS, an operating system written entirely in assembly complete with a GUI. Not all is open source
  • http://www.kolibrios.org/en/ KolibriOS is a free fork of MenuetOS. KolibriOS is very small - The kernel and most of the programs fit on a 1.44MB floppy disk.

Emulators

A full install, or even a live CD, is not necessarily needed, sincfe there are emulators.

Misc

Resources for OSDEV

/aosg/ Book Club