omega for smarties

These pages are for people who already write omega and want to know how it works underneath, or want the words that read and write the machine directly. They assume you know what ring 0 and a page table are. If you can't write a loop in omega yet, go through first steps and learn first.

The language

• The language in detail
• How worlds work
• Bignums
• How infinity works
• Limits
• All words

The machine

These words act on the real machine as soon as they run. Transactions and back can't undo them, and nothing checks what you pass them.

• Memory
• Ports, the CPU and PCI
• The screen
• Drives, rebooting and installing
• The JIT and the disassembler

The system

• Internals
• Booting
• Disk layout
• The scheduler
• The garbage collector
• Source layout