Building an operating system from scratch and studying the ethical aspects of its operations
Building an operating system from scratch and studying the ethical aspects of its operations
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Ασημακοπούλου, Ραφαηλία
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What happens when we press the power button on our computer?
How does the operating system work with the computer hardware?
We come to answer these questions through this thesis. We potentially want an IT student to be able to edit and run one’s software
locally on one’s computer based on the theory described within the
thesis and the code provided on a Github repository. We know that
the first computers were designed as early as the middle of the 18th
century. Initially, they were massive and their use served companies
for large data processing, but today they are portable and pervasive
among us. They intervene in our lives and shape them almost imperceptibly. They became mass communication tools, mass computing
media, and extensions of human needs. Electronic product designers, today, are considered architects of experiences, which regard
quality as ease of use for the novice user. Instead, the modern digital
age calls us to answer a new question, how much liberty does the user
have in the digital environment with which one interacts? The evolu-
tion of open source software is another fact. The creation of small
portable virtual machines that run on old and new hardware even on
the internet make room for the entry of the web3 era, and in combination with the development of personal computers, following the
”do-it-yourself” movement, promise to contribute to more secure use
of our data.
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Microcomputers, Media, Communication, Paradigm shift, Dissemination, Phenomena, Security