liam (the made-up computer guy)

There's an entire club dedicated to doing this to you which you're not in the least informed of

Smoove off

There’s no Rust on this Ironclad Kernel Hackaday Article

There’s no Rust on this Ironclad Kernel

Isn't that just SOV or OSV

They would have done it on Mach and possibly hired Avie Tevanian before NeXT could; they interviewed Avie for Cutler's job before they interviewed the latter

Wow what language is that?? It's the best language maybe ever. Whoever made that is a genius

It does! Supports paging, I used it in my OS

No userland ported yet other than this simple init program which just tests out the write syscall but that's next on the list apparently

soooo it's been a while since i posted but apparently my custom RISC architecture runs the whole ass linux kernel now (courtesy of monkuous who has done all the porting work)

i wonder how people survived in college in the 90s back when they only had ChatMBR

you know what's crazy is that the brain does all that without even having any mutexes

How did I get so deep in a particular hobby that I can instantly recognize two random old men ive never met in my life and be hyped that theyre in the same picture together. Not Bill Gates he's boring. The other two much cooler old guys

Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds have met for the first time ever, at a dinner hosted by Sysinternals creator Mark Russinovich. Dave Cutler, Microsoft technical fellow and Windows NT lead developer, also met Linus for the first time www.linkedin.com/posts/markru...

"What Makes It Page?" is the windows vmm bible.

you should also look at the original NT design notes (google "Windows NT Design Workbook", without quotes) to see their thoughts on it

the source code is available on github: github.com/fox32-arch (be sure to check the community-projects repo, some really cool things have been made!!)

we have a discord server as well: discord.gg/2Tun7FnUZ2

shout out to @hyenasky.bsky.social for porting mintia and the jackal programming language!!

screenshot of the fox32 emulator window showing the fox32os desktop. on the desktop are three windows: a terminal window showing a directory listing and list of running tasks/processes, a file browser window showing the root directory of the boot disk, and a window containing the transgender pride flag. the desktop wallpaper is a picture of a fox, but is mostly obscured by the windows on top of it.

fox32os desktop with three windows open: a large text editor window containing (partial) source code for an example application, a file browser window, and a window created by the example application in question. the example application simply creates a small window titled "hello" and draws the text "hi chat" to it.

updating my pinned post since its outdated:

hello world!! this is fox32, a fantasy computer platform based on a custom ISA! it runs a graphical multitasking operating system called fox32os, and over the past couple years has gained support for a few new programming languages designed by my friends!

Shoutout to Penny Ahlstrand @ the CHM for digitizing hundreds of pages of junk for me on multiple occasions

Topaz, Mica, OZIX, and NT in particular I've been obsessed with for like years

made a family tree (family DAG?) of a bunch of weird DEC operating systems based on like thousands of pages of weird papers i've read through including a bunch of stuff that i had to get digitized by the computer history museum

Papal infallibility must feel so good if you're like a particularly fallible pope

I'm not claiming to be better btw if I could make half a mil salary for spending all day posting pure nonsense coal about programming on twitter I'd absolutely do it

That yacine guy in particular struck me as this a long time ago but I think he was merely a trailblazer for like dozens of them

Twitter convinced me there's a new class of really dumb silicon valley "engineers" with mid 6 figure salaries who were actually hired as social media influencers, unbeknownst to even themselves, and they're too dumb to figure it out lol

It's very WIP but it has an SMP scheduler inspired by FreeBSD, locks based on Solaris turnstiles, the start of an XNU-inspired IO system, and is planned to have swapping and stuff.

Rn it runs on @ryfoxbread.bsky.social's fox32 computer along with my own XR/station, and an x86 port is planned.

I should post here more, I'll start by posting what I'm working on!!!

I'm writing an OS called mintia2. It's written in a new language called Jackal using a fully custom self-hosted development toolchain, it's portable, and it has paging and preemptive multitasking.

github.com/xrarch/mintia2

hello ryfriends thank you for startling me with the likes and follows... thank you ryfox for sending me some ryfriends

The bit-aligned instruction encodings didn't even save any space compared to VAX machine code and the performance was also GLACIAL
archive.org/details/Perf...

You are just useless man go be obsolete and out of touch somewhere else

Visual difference between RISCy and CISCy encoding in a hex editor view of the mintia kernel binary for XR (my RISC ISA; top) and fox32 (@ryfoxbread's CISC ISA; bottom). You can kinda see the 4 byte aligned boundaries in the RISC code and lack thereof in the CISC code

least irrationally anxious ryfox statement