Found a new hobby: OS development.

  It's not as hard as I had expected. There's some very good information
  out there:

     o OSDev Wiki[1] (english)

     o Lowlevel Wiki[2] (german)

     o Tyndur[3], an educational OS developed by members of the Lowlevel
       Wiki

  Of  course,  I'm not even close to a "running" system, yet. I'm moving
  in very small steps and it's important to me that I understand as much
  as possible -- I don't care about my pace.

  I'm running my "kernel" in QEMU. It's funny: It only takes a few lines
  of assembly code until you can start writing C code.

  I wish I could have had the chance to do something like this 20 or  30
  years  ago  when  computers  where  *simple*. Today, they're extremely
  complex machines. I bet no single human can fully understand a  modern
  CPU.

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  1. http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page

  2. http://www.lowlevel.eu/wiki/Hauptseite

  3. http://git.tyndur.org/?p=tyndur.git;a=tree;hb=HEAD