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Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System — Chapter 01 Memory: Overview

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Carried-in Context (from earlier chapters)

• First chapter — nothing carried in.
• Book-level framing (from the front matter): Burgess (1995) walks through MMURTL, his own message-based, real-time, multitasking micro-kernel OS for 32-bit ISA PCs, guided by Einstein's “as simple as possible, but not simpler.” The preface says MMURTL v1.0 is untested and still under construction.

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• Cross-book: MMURTL's “simplicity over backward compatibility” stance may parallel KISS/YAGNI in FOCUS Architecture.
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