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What is a good place to draw the line? Kernel? BIOS? Microcode? Hardware?

I say hardware and that 1072 bytes beats the shit out of that:

https://github.com/oriansj/stage0/blob/master/stage1/SET.s

pfft, you aren't counting the megabytes of intel microcode that emulate this

I really don't understand why more people in this generation don't run their own strip mining operations for processor fabrication anymore. It's incredibly helpful in both understanding just how many man hours go into a single google search as well as teaching one how to get the most performance out of every last electron.

I'm even fine with OpenGL if the functionality is impressive. (Generated textures, models, great visuals etc.) A text noneditor is not.

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