ZXFoundation™ - a modern z/Architecture-exclusive kernel built from scratch

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assembler0
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ZXFoundation™ - a modern z/Architecture-exclusive kernel built from scratch

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ZXFoundation™ is a DGP (Domain/Gate/Portal) experimental kernel that exclusively targets z/Architecture. A completely different design, no POSIX-compliance planned, isolated architecture, deeply integrated with z/Architecture specifics. Then project serves primarily as a PoC, and is intended for research and educational purposes. It aims to be a performant kernel that offers high stability for mainframes. And moreover a (working) proof that z/Architecture is a facinating world, not just tied to big corps and IBM themselves. Written completely in modern C++23 modules. It also implements its own IPL loader, ZXFoundationLoader™-a highly capable loader with many assistance and can be used in a kernel barebones if you are interested in the architecture.
More information can be found: https://zxfoundation-devlog.vercel.app/
ZXFL barebones: https://wiki.osdev.org/ZXFL_Barebones
Thank you! hope you enjoy :D
FinnDev
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Re: ZXFoundation™ - a modern z/Architecture-exclusive kernel built from scratch

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Hi friend, could you give me a little more information about this kernel? By the way, I'm also writing an operating system kernel called Valiantcore. If you want to take a look at its code, you can find it at https://gitHub.com/finndev62/valiantcore/. I released it for free under the GPLv2 license :)
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