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Welcome to the Project Docs for P5OS

The first thing to know about P5 is that it's absolute bullshit and done for nothing other than the author's own edification and strange concept of entertainment. So far, it has ended up with a sort of microkernely design based heavily on message passing. As of this writing, it has very naive multitasking and a barely-there vfs. The whole thing is, unsurprisingly, x86 targeted and doesn't have a particular aim at being portable. Ultimately, P5 is the natural result of a single man occasionally pecking down a path to try and make a lump of silicon do a particular thing whenever he has the time and volition. And this is some attempt at documenting that process.

My documentation is broken down into the following sections:

1. Goals (complete fantasy stuff here)

2. User Operation (how the system boots and runs)

3. Whitepapers (technical specs of the system internals)