[HN Gopher] A monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 ma...
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A monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code
Author : annilt
Score : 52 points
Date : 2023-06-07 20:16 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| bmacho wrote:
| Why is it monolithic? Why not microkernel? Especially that all
| the typical jobs of an operating system are outsourced.
| detrites wrote:
| Absolutely mad history here:
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20569438 (2019)
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| As a teaser, from the above:
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| _> For those not aware of the background, the author is a wizard
| from a secretive underground society of wizards known as the
| Familia Toledo; he and his family (it is a family) have been
| designing and building their own computers (and ancillary
| equipment like reflow ovens) and writing their own operating
| systems and web browsers for some 40 years now._
| actionfromafar wrote:
| It's so incredible I can't digest it.
| CephalopodMD wrote:
| Sounds a bit like wozmon. Neat!
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