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minus-square@MonkderDritte@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglish0•5 months ago People believed that they could write better assembly. For speed and size. Now we know we can’t write better C. Though my teacher in tech school a few years ago ran an entire OS, where everything is written in assembler. What was it?
minus-square@Macros@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglish0•5 months agoMaybe Kolibri OS? Its an amazing project, booting from a single floppy disk into a full graphical OS with multiple tools. And that on PCs with almost no RAM. I sometimes use it to backup ancient PCs.
minus-square@MonkderDritte@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglish0•5 months agoYeah, sounds like this, thanks! Makes me wonder why the suckless guys don’t hook in there.
Now we know we can’t write better C.
Though my teacher in tech school a few years ago ran an entire OS, where everything is written in assembler. What was it?
Maybe Kolibri OS?
Its an amazing project, booting from a single floppy disk into a full graphical OS with multiple tools. And that on PCs with almost no RAM.
I sometimes use it to backup ancient PCs.
Yeah, sounds like this, thanks!
Makes me wonder why the suckless guys don’t hook in there.