kontais / caos

Calcium OS project for x86_64

CaOS64 (Calcium OS for 64bit x86_64)

CaOS64 is a study-kernel for x86_64 multiprocessor platform.

I hope that CaOS64 may provide the energy like calcium nutrition for system-programmers

More calcium, better health and better programming

features

• 32bit protected mode/64bit long mode
• segmentation and paging
• context switching of three user-mode processes
• keyboard and timer interrupt handler
• support dual-core processor and up to 512MB physical memory
• dynamic memory allocation with slab memory manager
• Keyboard IRQ handler
• Local timer IRQ handler for each processor

License

CaOS64 is released under the General Public License (GPL). For more licensing information, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html.

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