Can I write an OS in FreeBASIC ?
YES and NO. If you really insist to write an OS and involve FB, the answer is YES. If the question is, whether it is a good idea that you, even more if a beginner, should start coding an OS using FB now, the answer is NO. Several pitfalls apply: • OS development is hard, see http://www.osdev.org/wiki/Getting_Started∞ . • FB won’t help you to bypass the need to deal with assembly, also C might be almost impossible to avoid. • You won’t be able to use most of the trusted FB features, like graphics, file I/O, threads, memory management, even console I/O … just control flow, math and logic. If you need those library functions, you will have to reimplement them. FreeBASIC relies on GCC, and available informations about developing an OS in C apply to FreeBASIC as well. FB will help you neither more nor less than GCC.
