[Tfug] OS written in Assembly

Jordan Aberle jordan.aberle at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 16:15:35 MST 2009


The only reason why I posted this is because I was impressed that someone
was able to actually write a fully functional operating system in assembly,
no other reason.

Of course, why write in assembly when you can write in an object oriented
language...

-Jordan

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Terence Rudkin <trudkin at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Jordan Aberle <jordan.aberle at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> It won't be mainstream or popular, but it's fun to tinker with this lean
>> mean fighting machine.
>
> I have to side with Bowie on this.   It may be mean, i doubt that it is
> lean and the only fighting will be to maintain the sucker.   There is a
> place for human coded asm, but boy is it rare.  Intel 's ICC has very
> controllable optimizations, and hard to think of and need to ASM.  If you
> wish to learn from it all well and good,  but I'd think learning higher
> level languages a better option.
>
> TR
>
>
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