Project HalOS

About

This project is being done as part of the BSCE senior project class at Vermont Technical College (VTC).  The goal of this project is to design and develop a small but usable operating system for the IA-32 architecture.  The project scope does not intend it to become another Windows or Linux.

Demo

Here is a picture of HalOS running in bochs. The data on the screen represents the following

000000087 - Timer ticks since kernel was loaded and initialized

056 - Scan code from a key on the keyboard being pressed

BABABB(etc) - Represents two proccess running, demonstrating the HalOS scheduler in action

Here is a picture of HalOS running a tetris clone in bochs.

Administrative

• Title Sheet
• Contents
• Proposal
• Requirements
• Schedule

Development

• Tools - Lists all required tools and software required to build HalOS
• System Layout - System diagram.
• Memory Layout - The physical memory layout
• SDK - The Software Development Kit
• Boot Process - walk through of the design and implementation of a boot loader.
• SDK Introduction - Getting started guide for the SDK
• KB000001 - Using Cygwin as a development platform

Presentations

• Project Presentation (Final Presentation Semester 1)
• Status Update (1-29-2002)
• Project Presentation (3-5-2002)
• Project Presentation (4-9-2002)
• Project Presentation (Final Presentation Semester 2)

© Copyright 2002 by Christopher DeGuise. All rights reserved.