Resources

This page maintains a list of resouces related to operating system development.

Operating System Programming General

Intel Manuals Ralf Brown's Interrupt List
Bona Fide
The Operating System Resource Center
John Fine's Home Page
Write Your Own Operating System
How to Write an Operating System
NeuralDK OSDev Tuts
Shunya OS Development
TAJ OS Development

Operating System Programming Tools

Assemblers

NASM (Netwide Assembler)
MASM (Microsoft's Macro Assembler)
FASM (Flat Assembler)
TASM (Borland's Turbo Assembler)
YASM

Compilers

C

GCC, the defacto open-source C toolset
MinGW, a good port of the GCC toolset to Windows
DJGPP
LCC
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005

Emulators

Bochs
Virtual PC (now free!!!)
VMWare Server (now free!!!)
QEmu