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...something tells me that I can't make that with paper clips and duct tape... :-/

Haha, yessss... Um... I've actually thought about getting some silica sand and following the method that was in pop sci how 2.0 a while ago for extracting the pure silicon out of it and then finding a way to dope it from phosphorous from light bulbs or something and aluminum somehow to make my...

Actually, the boot process is a tad more complicated than that. If I remember correctly, mac floppies don't actually use HFS but a similar one. I could be wrong on that, and with me that's always a pretty big possibility. But I remember in the booting docs I came across that there's actually a...

You know, honestly, I really haven't decided yet. For some reason I have an odd hankering to play around with the framebuffer with no toolbox. Plus I think it would be nice to have a little floppy-bootable demo just because it's so cool to stick your disk in and watch it commandeer the system at...

Ahh... I love this stuff. It makes me wish I was around when this stuff was novel. I find myself going through the home brew cpu webring that the MAGIC 1 belongs to sometimes just for kicks, even though there's rarely anything new. For some reason I have a constant urge to build things from the...

I've been getting into really low-level and rudimentary OS programming, but the only systems I have that are well documented enough to work with are my lame old PCs. Folks, the 386 and above is just an outright terrible processor IMHO. everything in modern computers is so cobbled together...

Yeah. Crazy feds. But at least we've got a chance for some improvement coming up in the next couple months. On topic, what other systems marketed at regular consumers ever had this distinction? I'd think SGI would've had a major problem with that, but then again they weren't exactly...