BasicOS - literally basic

BasicOS is a lightweight operating system developed in Assembly x86 (NASM) and C99, tailored for educational purposes.

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Features

• Bootloader: Includes a 32KB stack.
• Heap managment: Malloc and free features.
• Input: Basic keyboard input functionality.
• Output: Simple screen output functionality.

Built-in Libraries

• stdio.h: Input/output operations.
• string.h: String manipulation utilities.
• stdlib.h: Memory and heap management functions, including shutdown (exit).
• shell.h: Basic shell with built-in commands.
• stdarg.h: Standard Arguments

Building and Running

Prerequisites

Make sure you have the following tools installed:

• NASM (Netwide Assembler)
• GCC (GNU Compiler Collection)
• LD (GNU Linker)

Build Instructions

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/iyksh/basicOS && cd basicOS

2. Build the project:

   make

3. Running with QEMU (Recommended):

   make run

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to submit a pull request or open an issue to discuss your ideas.

License

This project is licensed under the GPL3 License. See the LICENSE file for more details.

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