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-Sandbox for playing with low-level programming stuff
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-
-The following projects are inspirational:
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-    https://github.com/programble/bare-metal-tetris
-    http://0xax.blogspot.com/2014/09/say-hello-to-x64-assembly-part-3.html
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-x86 instruction set reference:
-    http://x86.renejeschke.de/
-    http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs216/guides/x86.html#registers
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+# Bare metal programming sandbox
+
+This repo is a sandbox for experimenting with bare metal code and other
+low-level programming concerns.
+
+
+# Useful links
+
+The following projects are inspirational:
+* https://github.com/programble/bare-metal-tetris
+* http://0xax.blogspot.com/2014/09/say-hello-to-x64-assembly-part-3.html
+
+## x86 instruction set reference:
+* http://x86.renejeschke.de/
+* http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs216/guides/x86.html#registers