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- Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:14 am
- Forum: Article Feedback
- Topic: Setting up MSVC++
- Replies: 13
- Views: 84903
Setting up MSVC++
Oh while im typing this just a quick (unimportant)note but when using tabbed browsing withon your site I have to keep logging in but, anyway.. Well this is about the "Operating Systems Development - Setting up MSVC++ 2005" tutorial.. I downloaded the demo and tried compiling it on Visual C++ 2005 an...
- Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:38 pm
- Forum: Advanced OS Development
- Topic: Virtulization
- Replies: 15
- Views: 91696
Just a note on your sign Andrew :P thats not my service provider :P... Hmm program size doesn't really matter though.. When you look how big office is they're probally all in cahoots with the hard disk manafactures :roll: Yea I suppose.. Checking should be avoided where possible though.. Like there'...
- Sat Jan 12, 2008 2:01 am
- Forum: Advanced OS Development
- Topic: Virtulization
- Replies: 15
- Views: 91696
Adding input validators and stuff is nice but not always neccasary even for proper projects.. Only for methods, properties etc that are exposed as public should really be checked otherwise your cutting a (possibilly big) performance loss. :cry: As for sticking all your functions and stuff into one l...
- Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:45 pm
- Forum: Advanced OS Development
- Topic: Virtulization
- Replies: 15
- Views: 91696
Oh thats actully a very good idea :o :D I was considering that but it would mean making my own compiler :( alot of work ah well.. And oh yuep I knew the difference between crack and hack, well you know how you know things but you kinda forget until you get reminded? :P Wow thats scary when you think...
- Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:36 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Introduction
- Replies: 15
- Views: 94073
- Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:27 pm
- Forum: Advanced OS Development
- Topic: Virtulization
- Replies: 15
- Views: 91696
Hey Thanks :D Well what im trying to protect against is anyone/anything apart from the actull owner of the physical computer.. Because yeah I know protecting further then that is technically impossible (and pretty much useless). Going into a bit more detail I want to: Stop any proccess from blocking...
- Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:55 am
- Forum: Advanced OS Development
- Topic: Virtulization
- Replies: 15
- Views: 91696
Virtulization
Okay well I have an idea.. I know its phesable in terms of making it work, but I want to know how feasable it is in terms of making it not go really REALLY slow.. Basically what im thinking is if no code could execute apart from the kernal (and maybe/maybe not drivers), without well being interprete...
- Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:07 pm
- Forum: Assembly Language
- Topic: The hlt instruction
- Replies: 3
- Views: 39450
The hlt instruction
Sorry I just keep asking the complicated questions :P Well when the hlt instruction is um executed will the cpu just: Not increase the instruction pointer and therefore execute hlt until an interupt occurs, or Actully turn off the cpu/put it in idle? Cuz i heard thats what Vista does, well that and ...
- Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:51 pm
- Forum: Assembly Language
- Topic: Entering 32bit (un)real mode
- Replies: 3
- Views: 38317
- Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:44 am
- Forum: Assembly Language
- Topic: Entering 32bit (un)real mode
- Replies: 3
- Views: 38317
Entering 32bit (un)real mode
Ive been searching on the net for like a week now and I havn't found any resource that teaches the basics as good as this site... So I thought id ask here. Ive fiddled with the code from the tutorials here and came up with this: EnterStage3: cli ; clear interrupts mov eax, cr0 ; set bit 0 in cr0--en...
- Tue Jan 01, 2008 12:46 am
- Forum: Advanced OS Development
- Topic: Pure multithreading/multicore processors?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 39554
- Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:12 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Introduction
- Replies: 15
- Views: 94073
lol :o wow so many mikes :o are there any more?' lol Helloo everyone well I think you can all guess my name to :shock: .. Im 15 from New Zealand.hmm um im home-schooled an have been most of my life.. Ive been programming since I was like 7 so ive become quite good at it now :D Thanks heaps Mike (the...
- Sun Dec 30, 2007 1:30 am
- Forum: Assembly Language
- Topic: Floating point variables and Math?..
- Replies: 1
- Views: 30428
Floating point variables and Math?..
Is this possible in assembly?
- Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:58 am
- Forum: Advanced OS Development
- Topic: Pure multithreading/multicore processors?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 39554
Pure multithreading/multicore processors?
Well I think my question is pretty much covered in the title :) lol.. Im the kind of person that can find ways around stuff so im not asking how to do locks on objects and all that stuff that comes along with that.. Just how do I start execution of something on another processor? Oh and how do I fin...