Underground, take 1.

After several months of hiatus from operating systems development, I have returned with something new. Something unfunctional and a little bit ugly, but something a little bit prettier and more more functional than my last failed project, STROS. It's called Underground, and I'm going to try my hardest to keep this alive and well. After a few weeks of work, I've got this to show for it:


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Some points of interest:
The header - I decided that since the average user, probably coming from an operating system such as Windows, Linux, or the Mac OS, would be used to having some sort of title bar containing a clock at the somewhere in their window (for Windows, at the bottom, for Mac at the top). Having becomed quite accustomed to this, I decided this would be at the very least a convience for me and at the very best an improvement over DOS, which did not sport such a clock. Bringing us to our next point...

The real time clock - A RT clock was something that I learned early on would be very useful in my operating system, mostly for process scheduling and alarms and such, but also to give the user the time and date. 2 days later I had a working clock. Sadly, this is Underground's biggest acheivement so far.

In other news, congratulations to William Stanton on the purchase of a brand new Macbook Pro!