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		_ofdw on Oct 24, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: X86 boot sector written in C (2010) >However, as a philocalist and masochist I felt compelled to write legible code and decided to use C. Having looked at the author's boot.c, I now understand that legibility is in the eye of the beholder. Still, it's a neat and impressive hack. I wish I knew more about operating systems.

asveikau on Oct 24, 2014 [–]

I'm actually pretty surprised and impressed at how short and legible this turned out. Out of curiosity I've written code to do I/O through the BIOS and parse files out of FAT, it didn't turn out this short.

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