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by CocaKoala 4448 days ago
I'm really digging the systems posts that have been cropping up on HN recently; this and the toy OS post that was floating around are both really interesting.
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Funny thing is that they both do basically the same thing, except one is done all in assembly and the other in C.

I would have liked this post to actually discuss the things that a bootloader is meant to do, like switching to 32-bit protected mode and loading the next block of code from the disk.