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>32bit environment is much easier to deal with than starting at 16 and working your way up.

How much bytes do you think one requires for an OS loader? The complex part is loading all the code into memory from a file on disk partition without having a MB-sized fs driver, stdlib and loader in it yet. 16, 32 or 64 it doesn’t really matter.




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