Is it possible to make an operating system using VB.NET?

Is it possible to make an operating system 开发者_如何转开发using VB.NET?

Yes it is possible to make an operating system using vb.net.

You've got a serious bootstrap problem. Compiled VB.NET code cannot run without the services of the CLR and the JIT compiler. Existing implementations of it (mscorwks.dll and mscorjit.dll for example) have a heavy dependency on services provided by an operating system. You'll have to write your own, that's non-trivial to put it mildly. In addition, many classes in the framework rely on P/Invoke to directly call a Windows API function. Very basic classes like Console, Control, FileStream, Socket. You'll have to replace those too. That's where Singularity was stuck last time I saw a video of it.

The "starter kit" for any project like this is Rotor. That's how Mono got started. Take a look at what your in for, focus on the Platform Adaption Layer (PAL). Needs to be written in unmanaged C/C++ in its current form though.

It has been done (well C# at least, but since they are both CLR languages...)

It's called Singularity by Microsoft Research. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(operating_system)

https://github.com/CosmosOS :::: here is the Answer; Cosmos Allows you to develop your own kernal with c#

Yes, it is possible.

But first you will have to identify what an operating system is; and then define what would you want in your operating system? An operating system does a lot of work on the background as well as on the foreground; there are applications, memory, threading, network, ports, a separate world that make things work.

I would agree with Aviad that probably your OS may be called a .NET CLR, but thats what that would be called. An answer to your question is that it is possible provided that you define your OS and probably limit yourself to what you really require.

No!

Unless you re-define what an operating system is and make the problem fit the solution. This has been standard practice in this industry for decades. Given the right definition of Operating System, you can even use Esperanto to write it:) So what is your definition of Operating System?

Yes, but that would not be easy. Or hard, as a matter of fact. It would be insanely difficult! You would have to write a Visual Basic interpreter (in asm or c), then you would need to implement System and a lot of other CLR stuff. What you may be looking to do is create a virtual OS. This would mean that it lays over the Windows gui and acts as an interface. Good luck.