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→But I heard of an OS written in language XYZ, isn't it interpreted?
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This is a red herring. There is no such thing as an "interpreted language". Any language can be implemented using either an interpreter or a compiler; and even in an OS project, there are forms of 'interpretation' which can nevertheless by applied to system operations.
You may from time to time hear of operating systems written in languages which are usually interpreted, or which used an interpreter of some sort: JavaOS, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genera_%28operating_system%29 Genera] (the Symbolics Lisp Machine OS), Pilot-OS (the system for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
* The operating system runs in a low-level interpreter, written in Assembly or some systems language like C, which is what actually interacts with the hardware. In effect, the 'operating system' is just an application running on top of another, lower-level OS. Pilot-OS, UCSD Pascal, and some Java OSes work like this, though they also have some modules which are compiled to native code as well (see below).
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