Saturday, March 22, 2008

Mention on the Cosmos blog


The Cosmos project has a blog - and darnit - I got my 15 minutes of fame.

For those of you who doesn't yet know what Cosmos is it's a framework for writing Operating Systems in C#. Within minutes you can have your own custom operating system up and running. The C# code you write is converted into IL by Visual Studio, and then converted to Assembly/Machine code by Cosmos.

Today Chad "Kudzu" Hower, a Microsoft MVP and one of the founders of the Cosmos project, implemented USB support. That means that you build directly from Visual Studio 2008 onto a USB memorystick, and then you can boot your Operating System directly from the memorystick.

Network support is still more unstable than a cow balancing on a 15 feet pole stacked on a football, but still...

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