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Nice work!!!

Another one damn

The contract has been signed already. How do they even end the software ip purchased from weta?

hypothetically if the board faced enormous pressure from the public/investor and decided to reverse their decision, is this theoretically possible? of course its highly unlikely th…

backend of McDonald's app is handled by a third party new Zealand company plexure https://www.plexure.com/ not sure what their architecture is

Thanks for sharing this, that's very insightful.

Thanks for the info, good to know that it's easy to implement from kernel's perspective

Oops, typo :p

It's certainly plausible It's currently using wcc to compile the kernel https://github.com/wandwramp/wcc . We can swap it with gcc for sure, but require bit of work, especially the…

True, agree NZ is a great place to work. In fact, I quite enjoy my lockdown-free life in NZ.

Linus is a genius, I don't think I could ever reach his level Yeah it was a side gig for me, I did spend major of my days for the duration of 2 months last year to work on this. In…

Wow, I didn't know WAND had a github page. I'll get my fork merged with the main repo in that case. The custom fork basically adds a extra button "Quick Load", since the srec file …

:P

Depends on the audience I did struggle to explain the significance of this project when I was applying for graduate roles, especially to HR people who only look for keywards in CV.…

OP here, Yeha I did study in Waikato. NZ is a very small market compared to the rest of the world, so there is a lot less opportunities here in NZ in terms of number of startups an…

That's a very smart way of debugging concurrency. I did a lot of logging as well when I was doing debugging concurrency. Overtime once you got familar with the projects, I started …

Thanks will do

Lol, I like your description of the project, sounds much more promising than mine

Yeah they are still using to teach computer systems and operating system course

Thanks. The OS is roughly 90% compliant with POSIX.1, but there's still a lot of work to make it fully compliant. That would probably be my next goal. This is a hobby project, I wi…

I agree, X86 is too complex with its legacy hardware and obscure instructions and environments. It might not be a good starting place to develope hobby projects. The OS is running …

Yeah, I'll definitely share that

Thanks mate :D

Thanks, that's a good point. I'll definitely do that

The hardest part is debugging concurrency and weird scheduling bug. It's hard to debug because I can't reproduce it, which is quite frustrating. Over time, I found that making educ…