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Rust project startup kit (lemy.lol)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, a simple operating system project is not that hard to implement.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Point in case: Ben Eater recently uploaded a video where his "BIOS" consists of two I/O functions and compiles into less than 250 bytes. Double that if you count his port of WOZMON. We can argue later if that constitutes an operating system - I mean, it's not POSIX compliant but it does operate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q6Ujn_zNH8

Edit: watch that space. The venerable MS BASIC is on the way after this.