I wanted to understand what the bare minimum of an operating system looks like.
So I built one in Zig, keeping the whole thing under 1000 lines of code.
It can:
→ Boot from GRUB
→ Manage memory
→ Schedule simple tasks
→ Output text to VGA
The point was not to make it feature-rich, but to show how much is possible with just a few hundred lines if you strip everything down to the essentials.
botirk•1h ago
So I built one in Zig, keeping the whole thing under 1000 lines of code.
It can: → Boot from GRUB → Manage memory → Schedule simple tasks → Output text to VGA
The point was not to make it feature-rich, but to show how much is possible with just a few hundred lines if you strip everything down to the essentials.