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That's not surprising. The page says the kernel is multiboot compliant, which means it can be loaded by existing boot loaders. Whether the kernel later provides a floppy driver is …

I've been blogging for 22 years now. At the beginning I could tell I had a relatively steady audience based on frequent comments (when comments on blogs were a thing). These died o…

Yeah, structs (records) is something I've been wanting to add and that became reasonably easy with the full rewrite of the compiler I did in 0.13. Probably in the next update!

What do you mean? FUNCTIONs are supported, and their arguments and return values are strongly typed.

Two years ago, I spent time studying the Windows NT kernel internals and ended up writing a comparison against Unix here: https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/windows-nt-vs-unix-desi…

> Only the very first few models of Intel Macs had strictly 32-bit processors (the 2006 iMac and Mac minis with Core Solo/Core Duo processors), and none of them were realistically …

> It's a little bit sluggish, isn't it? And takes quite a bit of time to boot, right? It's certainly usable, though, not worse than your average website these days. I intend to use…

Sure, and I'm not arguing that the answers are uninteresting, but I found it odd that this is being double-quoted several times as if it was taken out of the article.

I'm curious... why are people (this thread, but there are several independent others) replying to "Is anyone still using emacs?" ? I don't see that sentence anywhere in the article…

Thanks. I haven't documented it (yet?) but I did give a talk last year on the process that got me there and the internals behind this system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZFYTI…

I went through a similar "thought process" to build this: https://www.endbasic.dev/endbox.html last year. I originally wanted to "just" launch my binary right after the kernel star…

They probably meant 2010s. I remember this was the time when Google started pushing the Chromebook idea and highlighting how it could boot in "just a few seconds". One of the earli…

> I’m starting to fall in love with CDs again. I visited a long-time friend recently and was surprised that they were using modern LP player for music. But the surprise itself actu…

> More Inevitabilism posting with the “not happy with” but is-what-it-is washing of your hands OK so, _realistically_, what can you do that will make any meaningful difference?

Huh, that's an angle I hadn't thought about. It'd be cool indeed!

Shameless plug for my https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/beyond-the-1-mb-barrier-i... article from a couple of years ago. You'll find a deep dive on unreal mode (I just learned it'…

I'm sorry but the landing page at fuzix.org (the top page nonetheless) is terrible as it does not even try to explain what FUZIX even IS . I went to the GitHub project page, which …

> the generated code just annoys me and the agents are too chatty I’ve eyerolled way less with Codex CLI and the GPT models than with Claude.

It sounds like you haven't tried. LLMs definitely can do this. The output tends to be overly positive though, claiming that any sort of rough draft you give them is "great, almost …

I was reading this and couldn't stop thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming

No, I _never_ referred to the GUI versions.