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hyenasky.bsky.social
liam (the made-up computer guy)
@hyenasky.bsky.social
23yo, he/him
doing a computer architecture & self-hosted compiler & OS for fun:
https://github.com/xrarch
Video of it booting
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
There's an entire club dedicated to doing this to you which you're not in the least informed of
November 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Smoove off
November 15, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Isn't that just SOV or OSV
November 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
They would have done it on Mach and possibly hired Avie Tevanian before NeXT could; they interviewed Avie for Cutler's job before they interviewed the latter
October 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Wow what language is that?? It's the best language maybe ever. Whoever made that is a genius
October 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
It does! Supports paging, I used it in my OS
October 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
No userland ported yet other than this simple init program which just tests out the write syscall but that's next on the list apparently
October 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
"What Makes It Page?" is the windows vmm bible.

you should also look at the original NT design notes (google "Windows NT Design Workbook", without quotes) to see their thoughts on it
June 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Reposted by liam (the made-up computer guy)
the source code is available on github: github.com/fox32-arch (be sure to check the community-projects repo, some really cool things have been made!!)

we have a discord server as well: discord.gg/2Tun7FnUZ2

shout out to @hyenasky.bsky.social for porting mintia and the jackal programming language!!
June 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Shoutout to Penny Ahlstrand @ the CHM for digitizing hundreds of pages of junk for me on multiple occasions
May 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Topaz, Mica, OZIX, and NT in particular I've been obsessed with for like years
May 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I'm not claiming to be better btw if I could make half a mil salary for spending all day posting pure nonsense coal about programming on twitter I'd absolutely do it
April 19, 2025 at 7:50 AM
That yacine guy in particular struck me as this a long time ago but I think he was merely a trailblazer for like dozens of them
April 19, 2025 at 7:48 AM