Mu can now render text atop baremetal x86.

Try clicking around from http://akkartik.github.io/mu/html/apps/ex5.mu.html

The boot-up machine code reads a few sectors from disk, configures a keyboard handler, and loads a bitmap font (2KB for ASCII, with the option for more).

I use GNU Unifont. I believe that means Mu is now GPL v2. So stated. IANAL and I try not to think about software IP. But a font? Copyright seems reasonable there.

Next up: a text editor!

https://github.com/akkartik/mu

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