A completely new computer
- Thread starter Isorse
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1 TB processor? Doesn't sound like you're particularly ready 
If you built the entire platform around known standards (x86/ARM, PCI Express, USB, etc) then you should be able to install OSes and similar that utilize those architectures. Otherwise you'd have to rewrite everything or find a way to port something like GCC to the operating system you also had to develop.
If you built the entire platform around known standards (x86/ARM, PCI Express, USB, etc) then you should be able to install OSes and similar that utilize those architectures. Otherwise you'd have to rewrite everything or find a way to port something like GCC to the operating system you also had to develop.
Isorse
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1 TB processor? Doesn't sound like you're particularly ready
If you built the entire platform around known standards (x86/ARM, PCI Express, USB, etc) then you should be able to install OSes and similar that utilize those architectures. Otherwise you'd have to rewrite everything or find a way to port something like GCC to the operating system you also had to develop.
I own a 1 TB Processor
Perhaps you would be better off studying the A+ curriculum?
Isorse
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A+ Curriculum in what subject?
I seriously doubt it. You might own a 1TB hard drive but there is no such thing as a 1TB processor. Processor speed is GHZ not TB which registers size not speed.
Isorse
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Sorry, I meant to say 1.1TB not 1TB and I meant to say Hardrive instead of processor, My processor is 4.4GHz
I think there was a figure floating around somewhere that the estimate in man hours for the Linux kernel alone was in the realm of $1.4 billion in 2008.
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/sites/main/files/publications/estimatinglinux.html
If you feel you can make something comparable in a year or two, including developing a CPU architecture and your own hardware standards, good luck.
If you have the knowledge and hardware to build your own CPU/Motherboard/hard drive plus write/code a OS. Why are you asking if you built your own hardware if a common OS would run on it? It would seem to me that you would already know that answer.
kam
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True!
Geoff
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They don't make 1.1TB hard drives, they come in standard sizes such as 1TB, 1.5TB, 2TB, etc. I'm not sure how you get a processor and hard drive confused, but what defines your processor is not your speed. If we ask what processor you have, you don't say 4.4GHz, you say I have an Intel Core i7 4970K (as an example).
It sounds like you aren't ready to build your own computer. As someone else suggested, read up on the A+ cert, they go over basic computer components, what they are used for, and basic terminology.