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32-bit x86 is one of the worst CPU architectures out there – so it was only a matter of time until I got so fed up with the idio(t)syncrasies of this lovely architecture and took the plunge to port it to amd64.

Thanks to the recent snowcopalypse here in Texas, I had a bit over a week with nothing but an old ThinkPad loaded with Intel reference manuals. So I did what any reasonable person would do. Start writing yet another operating system, of course.

All the parts for the 68komputer came in, so it’s time to crack open a cold one, fire up the soldering iron, and curse whatever idiot designed this board.

Most of the parts for the 68komputer have been ordered. Now the wait begins!

I’ve had a Saleae Logic 8 for a while, and it’s been a great debugging help. But sometimes, I find myself wishing it had a few more channels. It was time for my Logic to make a new friend.

Time to try this entire blog thing again, on yet another domain, with yet another blogging platform, with (hopefully) somewhat more regular updates this time around.

The Executable and Linkable Format is a binary file format used to hold information about executables and shared libraries, and can be output by many compilers. It’s also very easy to parse and can be output by gcc and clang. Thusly, it’s a great choice for the MosquitOS application binary format!