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Are you implying GP’s story is an exaggerated brag?

• exe34 2y ago
  I didn't get as far as protected mode or keyboard input, but the MBR and characters on a screen were achievable by a teenager in the early 00s with the few online guides from osdev. I know, because I was one, and I achieved those things using nasm on a pentium and ran it on a 8086 in another room. it meant a lot of trips with a floppy disk and practising my swearing.
  • peterfirefly 2y ago
    It was achievable long before that. The only hard part in the 80's was getting access to the datasheets, usually in the form of photocopies of photocopies.