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This article got me laughing into tears.

Only to make it even funnier by the glazed look in my girlfriends eyes when I was trying to explain whats so funny about guy bootstrapping a 32bit OS on a 8bit micro controller.

I mean the idea of emulating 32bit OS on a 8bit machine is not something too ridiculous on its own. But the setup he used. Oh my god. Must stop trying to comprehend this madness.

Kudos to Dmitry.

That's how the first version of the ARM was made, by software simulation on a 6502 in BASIC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#History

UUENCODE?

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