Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Sat 27th Sep 2008 01:16 UTC, submitted by J
SqueakNOS is an old idea that has gotten the kiss of life again. Squeak is a Smalltalk system built by Alan Kay and SqueakNOS is an attempt to remove the OS underneath Squeak. You can download a VMWare playable image from their sourceforge website or you can get an iso and more details about SqueakNOS from here.
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2005-09-03
I find these kind of articles to be ridiculous. The only software that can run without an OS are applications which access all their hardware directly; and even so, by attaching to interrupt vectors and the like they are arguably both an OS and an application.
So fundamentally, there is no way to run on conventional hardware without an operating system. Articles with this kind of title are obviously naive and I am stick of seeing them.
In the interest of full disclosure, I am a security specialist and systems software programmer with a computer science degree.