Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 19th Jul 2002 04:25 UTC
Let's face it, the most important, truly alternative, hobby operating systems that are somewhat usable today are three: MenuetOS, SkyOS and AtheOS. All three are hobby, open source OSes, written from people who enjoy coding low level programming. Read more about the differences between these OSes and which one you might want to try out.
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> Anyhow...how the hell do you code assembly for something like the Itanium??!!!
Why should that be too hard? The only special thing that this processor does is executing
predefined groups of instructions at the same time. It is not hard for an assembly coder to identify
nearby instructions that can be done in parallel and make bundles of them.
I recall doing something similar even back with 8088/8087, where you could
write an instruction for the 8087 (the FP unit), then follow that with some integer instructions
that could be processed by the 8088 while the 8087 was working.