Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs

Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs(github.com)

7 points by luke8086 13 hours ago | 0 comments

Hello HN,

I've been working on a simple OS for tinkering and running bare metal apps on vintage PCs.

Since I couldn't quite decide whether to target pure 16-bit, or slightly more capable 32-bit machines, I ended up with two separate versions:

- GentleOS/32 (https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32) works on i386+, requires 4MB of RAM and VGA display supporting 640x480x16 mode or any 256-color VESA mode.

- GentleOS/16 (https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos) works on 80186+, requires less than 192KB of RAM and a CGA display supporting 320x200x4 mode.

You can find more details in the repos.

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