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smolOS is a minimalist 16-bit operating system written in pure Assembly for x86 real mode. Its goal is to demonstrate the fundamentals of how an OS boots, handles input, and displays output using only the most essential code. smolOS fits in a single boot sector and runs directly on BIOS-compatible hardware or emulators like QEMU. It’s ideal for those seeking to understand bootloaders, BIOS interrupts, and ultra-low-level system programming through a practical and tiny project.

HelenOS is a portable microkernel-based multiserver operating system written from scratch. It decomposes key operating system functionality such as file systems, networking, device drivers and graphical user interface into a collection of fine-grained user space components that interact with each other via message passing. A failure or crash of one component does not directly harm others. HelenOS is therefore flexible, modular, extensible, fault tolerant and easy to understand. HelenOS...