<story><title>A monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code</title><url>https://github.com/nanochess/bootOS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>detrites</author><text>Absolutely mad history here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20569438&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20569438&lt;/a&gt; (2019)&lt;p&gt;As a teaser, from the above:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; For those not aware of the background, the author is a wizard from a secretive underground society of wizards known as the Familia Toledo; he and his family (it is a family) have been designing and building their own computers (and ancillary equipment like reflow ovens) and writing their own operating systems and web browsers for some 40 years now.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thom</author><text>You can buy the annotated source code for Oscar Toledo G’s Nanochess here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Toledo-Nanochess-commented-source-code&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;1304864375&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Toledo-Nanochess-commented-source-code...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was certainly a humbling experience for me.</text></comment>
<story><title>A monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code</title><url>https://github.com/nanochess/bootOS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>detrites</author><text>Absolutely mad history here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20569438&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20569438&lt;/a&gt; (2019)&lt;p&gt;As a teaser, from the above:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; For those not aware of the background, the author is a wizard from a secretive underground society of wizards known as the Familia Toledo; he and his family (it is a family) have been designing and building their own computers (and ancillary equipment like reflow ovens) and writing their own operating systems and web browsers for some 40 years now.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>misja111</author><text>Assembly was one of the first languages that I wrote in when I learned to program in the 80&amp;#x27;s, simply because other languages were too slow to develop games and other stuff. Since then I&amp;#x27;ve switched to Pascal, Java, Scala, Python etc.
But sometimes I still miss the joy of micro-optimizing some assembly code until perfection.&lt;p&gt;This Toledo family is amazing. I wonder if this will be the future of SD craftmanship, now that Moore&amp;#x27;s law seems to come to an end and we are forced to look at optimizing the performance of our software stack.</text></comment>