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Re:Linux Assembly How To: “Hello, World” by bobbo_ on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @08:36PM (#10051668)
Not necessarily "better", but lower level and without the use of syscalls: on bare-metal x86 protected mode, writing characters to "video memory" (from 0xB8000, normally).

http://wiki.osdev.org/Printing_To_Screen

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Re:Linux Assembly How To: “Hello, World” by 2ton_jeff on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @08:45PM (#10051693)
IMO, bootloader/video memory is quite a distance from the traditional model of what "Hello World" is meant to be about, no? If anyone's interested, there are lots of very simple bootloader Hello World goods around:

http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=17130

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