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> This has only been tested in an emulator. Real hardware might not like it.

?! So this is just a stand-alone binary with an awkward loader then.

The real trick (and challenge) comes when you want to run your stuff on actual bare metal.



I don’t understand your point? Are you trying to argue that OP didn’t work on a hard enough challenge to make you happy?


I'm arguing that OP did not build an OS. They built a program that needs a quite heavyweight runtime and loader in form of a system emulator.


Yeah... my biggest question is why it hasn't been tested on hardware. Dev doesn't own an x86?

Also the author refers to the (raw/MBR-format) disk image twice as an "iso" which makes me shudder.


If there was a floppy-based IMG file I would try it right out on bare metal.




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