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Discussion on: Everyone should write an operating system once

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bittnkr

I would like to mention
includeos.org/
An OS built entirely in C++, by now focused on cloud computing and bootable in virtual machines. A very nice and promising project.

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Phil Ashby

Ah, nice! A unikernel (aka library OS), which is pretty much what I was creating, inspired by things like VxWorks and FreeRTOS. There are mixed opinions on such things, I found this article well balanced:

hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/wh...

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bittnkr

Ahh... The power of youth with enough energy and to dare start from zero...

A modern version of your code, to mad guys, is Bare metal 64.
github.com/ReturnInfinity/BareMeta...
Pure X64 assembly, bootable in hardware, sized in kbs, and yet understandable.