Show HN: Javascript operating system
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Very impressive, even more so considering he is (apparently) 17.
* Implements a minimal bootstrap environment (very small kernel and tiny libc implementation) which hands over control to Javascript
* JS code is precompiled to bytecode using TwoStroke, a JS compiler written by the same author
* Drivers are written in JS too
* No graphics support, it's text based
If you want to get started with doing bare metal stuff, I quite like this article: http://balau82.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/hello-world-for-bare...
It uses ARM so you don't have to worry about all the x86 legacy cruft.
http://reddit.com/r/programming/comments/f26tu/how_to_write_...
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/f2pnt/write_you...