60% of Windows Vista to be Rewritten

Operating systems are a pain the ass. Try coding one. It's fun as hell.

Windows XP (2002) was about 40 million [source] lines of code. 60% would be about 24 millions lines. I wanna say Vista is more...

...Holy fucking shit.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Eleo

When did you try to code an operating system?

I took the operating systems course offered at my school back in fall of 2004, a requirement for computer engineers. It's the most notorious course the school has to offer for computer science/engineering. I would be up for days doing the projects for that class. I practically lived in a Linux lab that semester (as with the other students) and we just ordered food and drinksto the lab everyday. Fun times.

Now I do some less stressful stuff and work on embedded operating systems for some independent research credit. Without time constraints, I haven't done much, but as the semester ends, there'll be hell to pay.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by BlueMikey

That was part of my senior year in college. You don't do the whole thing because you couldn't fit all the concepts needed to do an entire OS into one course, but you do major parts of it and plug it in with code the teacher prepares.

Yeah, we had a very basic kernel, and the projects involved implementing such things as paging & virtual memory, file systems, messaging, scheduling, etc. Specifically, the first 2 mentioned were hell. Easy concepts to understand, pain in the ass to implement.

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