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A Look At Bootstrapping

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the low-level-fun-and-games dept.

markmcb writes "OmniNerd posted an interesting article on the often-overlooked process of bootstrapping. The author does a nice job of showing how to take an x86 system from BIOS to OS once it's powered on. A complete set of commented code is provided and explained in the article."

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  1. Tomorrow: How To Use A Mouse by QuantumG · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here I was hoping it was going to be a story about the commercialization of space.

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