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Re:Snowdrop OS – a homebrew operating system from scratch, i... by mihular on Friday January 24, 2025 @03:06PM (#42816475)
Holy C, no less
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Re:Snowdrop OS – a homebrew operating system from scratch, i... by nurettin on Friday January 24, 2025 @03:51PM (#42816807)
Holy C is hard to code without crashing Adam. If you type the wrong kind of indirection, the whole OS freezes.
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Re:Snowdrop OS – a homebrew operating system from scratch, i... by unixhero on Saturday January 25, 2025 @03:12PM (#42824412)
Yes there was no memory protection or anything. All ring 0!
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