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by iseyler 5358 days ago
How about 31 bytes?

http://www.returninfinity.com/baremetal-helloworld.html

Why use ELF or Linux? Flat binaries (and a custom OS) to the rescue! :)

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Why limit yourself to an OS? Design your own instruction set, with a single-bit 'hw' instruction!

As with all games (even Nomic) a game is only a game if there are rules that limit what one can do.

The esoteric language HQ9+ does this.