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Artificial intelligence Oprating System

aios is an operating system for x86 PC.It aimed to make you understand how to develop operating system. after follow the links given below or reading our handbooks and experimenting on aios source code you will be able to make your own operating system.you can also help us throug your beautiful ideas.aios has a great forum where you share your views with others further you can mail me personally.I will be glad to response on your beautiful questions.

aiOS and osdev wiki

aios wiki handbooks

Users manual
Developer guide
basic things to know
up to you

Introduction

Basic information

Introduction
Required Knoledge
Beginner mistakes
Licencing
Getting started
How to ask questions
What order should i make things in?
Frequently asked questions
tutorials

Environment

How kernel,compiler and C library work together
Interrupt Service routines , which can not be do in C
Using other language than C
The Bios PC (including examle)
Object files and relocation
How to ask questions
What order should i make things in?
Frequently asked questions
tutorials

Bare Bones/Baby step

Bare Bones
C++ Bare Bones
D Bare Bones
Pascal Bare Bones
FreeBasic Bare Bones
The BabyStep Tutorial

Booting and Setup

Boot Sequence
Diskless Booting
GDT Tutorial
Interrupts
Getting Keyboard Input

Testing and Debugging

Troubleshooting
Testing
Unit Testing
How Do I Use A Debugger With My OS

Design Consideration

Kernel Models

Monolithic Kernel
Microkernel
Exokernel and related models
Modular Kernel

Task Models

Monotasking Systems
Multitasking Systems
Real-Time Systems

Memory and Resource Management

Memory management - Overview and Introduction
Segmentation
Paging
Page Frame Allocation
File Management
File Systems

Scheduling

Processes and Threads
Context Switching
Scheduling Algorithms
Multiprocessor Scheduling
Blocking Process - processes sleeping and waiting

Process Sychronization

Synchronization Primitives - Semaphores, mutexes, spinlocks et al.
Signals

Inter-Process Communication

Message Passing
Shared Memory
RPC - Remote procedure calls

Resources

Books on OS Development
Assembly
Some small kernels with source
Disk Images with preinstalled GRUB
Deprecated, yet relevant, bits of specifications
Chip Numbers, Acronyms and Things
Resources

Reference Information

Executable File Types

32 bit

16 bit

Filesystems

FAT Details
Ext2 Details
SFS Details
NTFS Details

CPU
Modes

Real Mode
Protected Mode
Virtual 8086 Mode
X86-64

Hardware

The Hardware Category and linked resources

Other

IA32 Architecture Family
Model Specific Registers (MSRs)
Detecting CPU Speed
Inline Assembly/Examples
CPU Bugs
AMD K6 WriteBack Optimisations
SSE
Where Can I Find Information About Ports

Memory

Detecting Memory (x86)
A20 Line or "Why cant I access all my memory?"

IRQ's and Exceptions, PIC, NMI, APIC, OPIC

PS2 Keyboard Input
Mouse Input
I can't get interrupts working
IDT problems
Interrupt Service Routines (ISRs)
Interrupts
Non Maskable Interrupt (NMI)
APIC
PIC

Clocks, Timers and Counters

Programmable Interval Timer (PIT)
The CMOS clock, and its RTC chip
APIC timer (per-processor timer)
Detecting CPU Speed

Video

Accelerated Graphic Cards
Detecting Colour and Monochrome Monitors?
Printing to Screen in protected mode
Text Mode Cursor
Drawing In Protected Mode
Kernel Stdio Theory
VGA Resources and VGA Hardware documentation
Drawing characters in graphics mode using VGA Fonts
Video Signals And Timing
How to program Bochs' and QEMU's BGA graphics device

Audio

Sound
PC Speaker
Sound Blaster 16

Storage devices

ATA (harddisks)
ATAPI (CD-ROM)
DMA
Floppy Disk Controller (FDC)

Plug and Play

Plug-and-Play (PNP)
PNP Calls In Protected Mode

PCI, USB and things like this ...

Network cards and communicating devices

3c90x
Intel 8254x
Serial ports
Ne2000
RTL8139
RTL8169
802.11

Non-x86 Development

PowerPC
MIPS
Sparc
ARM

Tools

Bootloaders

Bootloader theory
GRUB / GRUB 2
LILO
XOSL
System Commander
Boot Magic
Rolling Your Own Bootloader

Compilers

GCC
Cygwin
MinGW
Dev-C++
DJGPP
Building a GCC Cross-Compiler
Porting GCC to your OS
Calling Conventions of GCC for x86 systems
Watcom C/C++
Visual Studio
Visual C++ Runtime
TCC
Other Compilers

Assemblers

GAS (GNU as, part of binutils)
Cygwin
FASM
NASM
YASM
On the difference between AT&T and Intel Opcode syntax

Linkers

LD (GNU ld, part of binutils)
Link Archiver (GNU ar, part of binutils)

Emulators

Bochs
QEMU
Microsoft Virtual PC
Windows Virtual PC
VMWare
VirtualBox
SimICS

Working with Disk Images

Disk Images in general, and ...
Loopback Device for Linux, *BSD et al.
hdiutil for MacOS X
Windows Tools