OS BUILDING

GOALS:
Fit on a floppy disk
x86 Architecture
Basic File operations (Delete, Move, Create Dir, list, run)
Simple programs running on the CPU itself

How would I go about doing this. What language should I use?

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Good question.  I'm not familar with Win32 at all.

To understand what I meant, think of how DOS used to do it.  The console was addressed through "CON", the printer through "LPT", block devices through "A", "B", etc.  I know there were DOS function calls that wrote directly to screen memory and stuff like that, outside of this ancient CPM device model.

I know under Linux, everything is in the /dev directory and you work with it using the same function calls as for files. It's not perfect as some devices need special ioctl's to do things, but it's way more consistent.