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