Cosmos - an interesting place to be

Like before I've discovered new and interesting things through the blog of Scott Hanselman. This time I've stumbled over Cosmos - an operating system written in C#.

I've been fascinated with creating OS's for several years. Back in 2004, I think it was, I wrote a simple OS in plain C. It didn't really do much except boot and detect some hardware.

Last summer I dabbled a little with the ReactOS operating system, and made some small sourcecode contributions there. That was C/C++, and unfortunately those are languages I'm not fluent in, so the development just progressed to slowly.

Now though I've found Cosmos which lets me use my favorite language, C#. Yey!

My goal is to create Network support in Cosmos. I've been working on a driver for the RTL8139 chipset for a few days now. Since I have a background in electronics I really love working in the sweet spot just between software and hardware. Working out bits and bytes, and addressranges and memoryareas. Bitfiddling and bitwise mathematics. Good fun!