So for some reason you could not do anything to prevent you and hit rock bottom? I'm sorry about that, and be sure you can always find/fight your way back.

How do you restart from scratch? The answer is pretty simple, you just do something new, use something you already had or know and just start again. Might sound easy but it's not, you probably already painted yourself into a corner and need to jump out of that corner.

You might want to make a list of all things …

Now in part 2 we will see how we can generate code and link it to GNU-EFI so it can run on the EFI environment, but first.

I asked ChatGPT... I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I'll copy more or less the wording on Wikipedia rather. UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is a specification for the firmware of computer systems that supports booting from a hardware-based EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) environment, and it's used by both UEFI 1.0 & later versions as well with some older BIOSes like …

I have this idea of restoring the Mesa/Cedar compiler but discipline and skill are lacking. I have documented the progress I made from a archive that was released by the Computer History Museum while ago in https://github.com/xspager/Cedar_tools.

So I was the other day watching the a Data General Nova being restored (Usagi Electric playlist, Tech Tangents playlist) and wondered if I could get myself familiar with the software on that platform and see if that helps with recreating the kind of …

Era o calor das noites de verão, 42 graus a noite inteira, por semanas, era isso que causava essa insanidade tão característica da cidade em que ele cresceu sempre tentou não odiar. A maior parte da população não dormia por muitos dias seguidos, ele tinha certeza que era essa a causa. A cidade de São Sebastião não era desconhecida da criminalidade, de gangsters e milicianos, de políticos corruptos, e sim, de alguns heróis. Era uma cidade rica que já havia sido a capital de um império modesto, teve seu período de grande estagnação, viu alguma melhoria …

So I did got back to playing with NetBSD on the PS/2 55 SX as I was afraid I would (check the original article here) and got it running. To be exact I got NetBSD 3.0.3 to install and run as I mentioned before, and after sorting the BIOS issues by deleting the file that store the non-volatile contents of the emulated BIOS and recreating the Reference Floppy with the .ADF files I still had to resort to using the installation boot disk to boot the installed system. By pressing any key and …