DexOS community updates
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010The DexOS got off to a shaky second half of 2010, one of the founders, Dex, stepped down from his position as head kernel developer. Steve and lone_wolf have assumed responsibility for kernel maintenance and the web page, and a new forum has been opened on the dex4u domain:
http://www.dex4u.com/phpbb
The new kernel will be a bit of a shift from older versions, in that file I/O will be expanded and the api’s standardize/simplified. There is also going to be a lot more focus on libraries for math, network, graphics, sound, etc., all with the goal of supporting higher level language application development in the future.
For the record, DexOS’s main focus is still providing the user with an easy to program environment free of “magic numbers” and mysterious layered API’s. The kernel will still be single-tasking, although support for multi-threading may be made available to the programmer via library.
What is DexOS? DexOS is a 32-bit operating system written in pure assembly language. The OS can boot itself from a variety of media, or can be launched off of a DOS distribution. The idea is to provide the programmer with a dedicated set of hardware and API’s to create effective, efficient solutions with a minimum of overhead and clutter. visit http://www.dex4u.com for more.