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Re:BootOS: Monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 m... by monocasa on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @07:31PM (#20570285)
Yeah, I was all prepared to go into a fairly standard "this isn't an OS, an OS needs to load and execute other programs" before digging into the source, but this totally does that and has a simple shell.

This is ridiculously impressive hacking up there with Woz code.

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Re:BootOS: Monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 m... by deathanatos on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @09:09PM (#20570838)
I've written a toy bootloader before — a much smaller goal/idea — and my goal with the first sector was to load the second sector!
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