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What Operating System are you targeting?

I started the current hardware design without any operating system in mind. There was a first attempt last year very influenced by Bill Buzbee's Magic-1 project. I got to dream with porting Minix to my machine as Bill did with his but soon I realized that I don't have the knowledge nor the experience required for such a venture.

So I focused on hardware design for many months until recently that I started to sketch a simple operating system for the computer that I designed. This would be a proprietary multiprogramming single-user operating system oriented to batch processing and magnetic tapes. The simpler the better but (as I've seen so far) no operating system is truly simple...

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