64-BIT OS WRITTEN completely IN ASSEMBLY

The people at Return Infinity just released a new version of their BareMetal OS, a 64-bit operating system written completely in assembly.

The goal of the BareMetal project, which includes a stripped-down bootloader as well as a cluster computing platform is to get away from the inefficient obfuscated device code produced by higher level languages like C/C++ as well as Java. By composing the OS in assembly, runtime speeds are increased, as well as there’s extremely bit overhead for when every clock cycle counts.

Return Infinity states the suitable application is for high performance as well as embedded computing. We can see why this would be excellent for truly quick embedded computing – there are system requires networking, sound, disk access, as well as whatever else a job may need. There’s likewise ridiculously little system demands – the entire OS is only 16384 bytes – lend itself to extremely small, extremely powerful computers.

With jobs that are computationally intensive, we believe this might be a excellent bridge between an insufficient AVR, picture or Propeller as well as a full-blown linux distro. There’s just some concerns about the application – we feel like we’ve just been provided a tool we don’t even understand when to use. any type of hackaday visitors have an concept on exactly how to utilize an OS stripped down to the ‘bare metal?’ What, exactly, would requirement 64 bits, as well as what hardware would it run on?

Check out the Return Infinity team calculating prime numbers on their BareMetal Node OS after the jump.