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Sectorforth is a 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a 512-byte boot sector (2020)

32 pointsby sigalorlast Sunday at 5:29 PM5 commentsview on HN

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Saltloaftoday at 6:43 AM

Eight primitives and a colon compiler in 512 bytes is a nice demonstration of how much you can bootstrap from almost nothing. The examples building up from there are the best part.

gabrielsrokalast Monday at 4:07 PM

2020

jxnsneblast Monday at 10:44 AM

Not that impressive considering this uses BIOS routines heavily and whole operating systems including basic interpreter fit in a couple of KiB

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