[HN Gopher] A monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 ma... ___________________________________________________________________ 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: | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20569438 (2019) | | As a teaser, from the above: | | _> 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! ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-06-07 23:00 UTC)