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a programmer having fun with bits
Personal blog · funwithbits.net/blog · on HN as funwithbitsprogrammingsystems
a programmer having fun with bits is a personal blog at funwithbits.net about programming and systems. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Dissecting the ROM BiOS Shipped with QEMU for Fun”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts dissect the ROM BIOS shipped with machines. One HN commenter cited one in a discussion of whether operating systems still rely on BIOS support, with QEMU as an example.
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Blog for programmers interested in distributed databases and low-level system details
Most-linked posts?
- Dissecting the ROM BiOS Shipped with QEMU for Fun2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-07-31
What Hacker News says?
Yeah that is the thing that runs an entire OS right :) Like Minix or Linux. Still I bet the BIOS will still be around in many places. What about QEMU? Does it present a machine that contains a BIOS? A google search turns this up: http://funwithbits.net/blog/dissecting-the-rom-bios-shipped-... Which means that OSes still have BIOS support. It's not my area of expertise, but it seems like turtles all the way down. BIO…
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