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gentleos
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luke8086 / gentleos

gentleos

A fantasy OS for vintage 16-bit PCs

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0Explicit recommenders
311GitHub stars
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What it is

A fantasy OS for vintage 16-bit PCs

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by 3-hour interval3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-06-07 15:45:50 UTC to 2026-06-09 12:24:32 UTC.

0122026-06-07 15:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-07 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJun 7, 15:002026-06-07 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-07 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-07 21:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-08 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-08 03:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-08 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-08 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-08 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-08 09:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-08 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-08 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-08 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 8, 12:002026-06-08 15:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-08 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-08 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-08 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-08 21:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-09 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-09 03:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-09 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-09 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-09 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-09 09:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-09 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-09 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-09 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsJun 9, 12:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Jun 7, 15:002026-06-07 15:00:00 UTC2026-06-07 18:00:00 UTC110
Jun 7, 18:002026-06-07 18:00:00 UTC2026-06-07 21:00:00 UTC000
Jun 7, 21:002026-06-07 21:00:00 UTC2026-06-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 8, 00:002026-06-08 00:00:00 UTC2026-06-08 03:00:00 UTC000
Jun 8, 03:002026-06-08 03:00:00 UTC2026-06-08 06:00:00 UTC000
Jun 8, 06:002026-06-08 06:00:00 UTC2026-06-08 09:00:00 UTC000
Jun 8, 09:002026-06-08 09:00:00 UTC2026-06-08 12:00:00 UTC000
Jun 8, 12:002026-06-08 12:00:00 UTC2026-06-08 15:00:00 UTC000
Jun 8, 15:002026-06-08 15:00:00 UTC2026-06-08 18:00:00 UTC000
Jun 8, 18:002026-06-08 18:00:00 UTC2026-06-08 21:00:00 UTC000
Jun 8, 21:002026-06-08 21:00:00 UTC2026-06-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 9, 00:002026-06-09 00:00:00 UTC2026-06-09 03:00:00 UTC000
Jun 9, 03:002026-06-09 03:00:00 UTC2026-06-09 06:00:00 UTC000
Jun 9, 06:002026-06-09 06:00:00 UTC2026-06-09 09:00:00 UTC000
Jun 9, 09:002026-06-09 09:00:00 UTC2026-06-09 12:00:00 UTC000
Jun 9, 12:002026-06-09 12:00:00 UTC2026-06-09 15:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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luke8086·Jun 7, 2026Submission

Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs

Hello HN, I've been working on a simple OS for tinkering and running bare metal apps on vintage PCs. Since I couldn't quite decide whether to target pure 16-bit, or slightly more capable 32-bit machines, I ended up with two separate versions: - GentleOS/32 (https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32) works on i386+, requires 4MB of RAM and VGA display supporting 640x480x16 mode or any 256-color VESA mode. - GentleOS/16 (https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos) works on 80186+, requires less than 192KB of RAM and a CGA display supporting 320x200x4 mode. You can find more details in the repos.
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