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I am 22 years old. I was diagnosed with autism around 12 years ago. Asperger's fits me the best out of all the DSM/ICD autism spectrum diagnoses, but my official diagnosis is a generic "autistic spectrum disorder" (as far as I know), and I generally just identify as autistic because I think that the distinction between autism and Asperger's is bogus (it appears to me that the vast majority of autism is one large, sprawling spectrum with no distinct subtypes and multiple causal factors for each individual). My primary interests are computer-related - programming, collecting operating systems and hardware, and gaming (on both consoles and computers) - although I have had many other interests in the past (many of which I still return to sometimes). My current "primary" projects are a proxy with Proxomitron-compatible content/header filters and an attempt to restore the CTSS operating system (which was the first working multi-user operating system, first demonstrated in 1961), and eventually, I plan to write my own operating system (which will combine the best features of several different systems, and have a core resembling QNX, Plan 9, and Linux, and a desktop somewhat resembling that of Mac OS X with a BTRON-like object model).

Hi, andrew_w. Welcome to WP.

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Welcome to WrongPlanet.

Greetings Andrew,

Welcome to Wrongplanet

Are you seriously thinking about making your own operating system? That would be very cool if you did and plus you would make tons of money out of it? But it does take alot of work out of it unless you are smart enough to know and plus it would most likely to require a team to get it all stable and ready for use.... Like with Ubuntu which is completely free to download and use and also to share on as much computers as you want.

Anyways happy posting and enjoy the quest of WP


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Hi there, welcome to the wonderful land of WP!

Oh and good luck on your operating system!

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Hello andrew_w, welcome, enjoy your stay on the Wrong Planet!

Good luck. Plenty of people are getting fed up with Windows.

Oh yes, that is correct, and plus the stinking price of it, it is just simply not really worth it... either save up for a mac or download Ubuntu, apparently that is free to download and put on your CD

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Hello. I am disappointed that I did not find the green skull avatar of English Invader first.

I definitely am. I've already got most of the basic design planned out already. It is going to be free software just like Linux, so I doubt that I'll make much money on it unless I can manage to sell support contracts like Linux vendors do. Basically, I'm writing it more because I think that I can write an operating system that's better than current mainstream operating systems, rather than to make money off it (although if I am able to make money from it, then I will). The fundamental architecture of mainstream operating systems hasn't really changed much for a long time. My system won't really introduce a lot of completely new architectural concepts, but it will include many that aren't especially common, such as a microkernel/multi-server core, a uniform file-based interface to system services, capabilities-based security, and a desktop with object-oriented compound document support, while maintaining reasonable compatibility with other systems (especially Linux and Mac OS X). Also, another thing that I hope to do is make it easier for other people to write their own operating systems by writing a paravirtualization-based firmware layer that presents a single low-level interface for each class of device. My system will run on this firmware layer rather than directly on the hardware, but the firmware will be a separate project and will not be specific to my system.