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Life & fun · May 3, 2022

A 3K Posix bootstrap kernel written in hex

Boot2Now is a series of compilers in the form of bootable machine images - ironmeld/boot2now

A 3K Posix bootstrap kernel written in hex launched on May 3, 2022 with 5 votes, #1,213 of 2,942 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

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