Pico11 for Operating System Students

[antoniocaruso]

Dear ntdevlabs

I found this project really interesting, I would add some documentation, with information about the structure and working of the different layers of windows.
To connect the modification to the way windows works internally.
I read the windows internals books, and I would actually have and ideal (maybe impossible target).
We know that it is possibile to run cmd.exe instead of explorer as a first userspace task after login. I would just have something that is able to do that without anything else: I.e. even if it is difficult to separate user space from kernel space in windows, the idea is to check if we get a ‘stable’ system with the minimum services (really minimum) and minimum userspace tasks (just command line).
I would try to compare this system with a basic Linux system in term of stability, features and resources.
Then I would some students start exploring what happens when we want to support applications, win32 apps runs in such environment?
If I take the exe file do explorer in windows 7 or 8 or xp does it work?
What if I wanna support a .net app?
The idea is to properly understand the boundaries of each layer that ms added over time. It is a complex project but it would be a very informative one.