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A comment on X86 boot sector written in C (2010).

Re:X86 boot sector written in C (2010) by na85 on Thursday October 23, 2014 @10:47PM (#8501900)
>However, as a philocalist and masochist I felt compelled to write legible code and decided to use C.

Having looked at the author's boot.c, I now understand that legibility is in the eye of the beholder.

Still, it's a neat and impressive hack. I wish I knew more about operating systems.

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Re:X86 boot sector written in C (2010) by asveikau on Thursday October 23, 2014 @11:42PM (#8502048)
I'm actually pretty surprised and impressed at how short and legible this turned out. Out of curiosity I've written code to do I/O through the BIOS and parse files out of FAT, it didn't turn out this short.
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