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Room to grow
Milestone 8 of my AI-assisted OS build: the heap allocator. The kernel gains dynamic memory — Vec, Box, and String start working with no operating system underneath.
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The illusion of memory
Milestone 7 of my AI-assisted OS build: paging and virtual memory. The kernel stops using the map the bootloader handed it and starts drawing its own — and survives the CR3 switch on the first try.
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It knows what it has now
Milestone 6 of my AI-assisted OS build: physical memory management. The kernel finally learns how much RAM the machine has, and hands it out one 4 KiB frame at a time.
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