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Kernel for z80 calculators

9 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 2 stories, 7 comments · first 2014-01-20 · latest 2018-02-02

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  1. Writing a microkernel in C is fine. I said _C++_. But for the record, I built this: https://github.com/KnightOS/kernel And I've worked on toy kernels here and there and studied more serious kernels in depth.
    comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2018-02-02 · in Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook
  2. …modifies the code in RAM to update the address to the correct one. It's basically just-in-time PIC. https://github.com/KnightOS/kernel/blob/master/src/00/restar...
    comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2018-01-06 · in SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System
  3. …syscall from your docs. Example: http://www.knightos.org/documentation/reference/threading.ht... https://github.com/KnightOS/kernel/blob/06aeba5442a073d02338...
    comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2015-10-27 · in Classeur.io: Re-enjoy writing, with Markdown
  4. …the problem of untested crypto by using tested crypto from an external module like OpenSSL. [1] https://github.com/KnightOS/kernel
    comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2015-07-25 · in Rwasa – A high-performance web server in x86_64 assembly
  5. …updates had to be signed, how did you get around that? Here are Texas Instrument's private keys: https://github.com/KnightOS/kernel/tree/master/keys
    comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2014-06-16 · in KnightOS, a third party OS for TI z80 calculators
  6. I'm _still_ writing z80 assembly for those calcs! Want to help? https://github.com/KnightOS/kernel How about a kernel with preemptive multitasking, dynamic memory management, a tree-based filesystem, cross-platform binaries, and the…
    comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2014-04-07 · in Poll: How long have you been programming?
  7. …but I've been building an open-source kernel in z80 assembly for three and a half years now: https://github.com/KnightOS/kernel I might chime in with a perspective of someone working on 70s hardware without memory protection, ring modes,…
    comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2014-01-20 · in Anatomy of a Program in Memory