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# About
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There are a few tutorials that explain how to make an operating system and give examples of increasing complexity with more and more functionality added.
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This is not one of them.
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The goal of this repository is to use the minimal setup possible to be able to observe *a single* low-level programming concept for each minimal operating system we create.
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This is not meant provide a template from which you can write a real OS, but instead to illustrate how those low level concepts work, so that you can use that knowledge to implement operating systems or drivers.
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Minimal examples are useful because it is easier to observe the requirements for a given concept to be observable.
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Another advantage is that it is easier to DRY up minimal examples (here done simply through `#include` and macros), which is much harder on progressive OS template tutorials, which tend to repeat big chunks of code between the examples.
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