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@Rp12Biker :verified:<p>Today, with an unusual follow-up project. This <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Thomson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Thomson</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/TO7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TO7</span></a>-70, sold almost exclusively in France, was donated to us almost fully equipped. Various cartridges including an <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/assembler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assembler</span></a>, floppy drive with controller, light pen, etc.<br>Unfortunately, the keyboard membrane was completely broken at the connectors, and all attempts with silver paint and conductive adhesive foil failed. And I couldn't find a replacement anywhere, so I bought a second, defective one in the hope that its membrane was still in working order :) And it is, keyboard fully functional.<br><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Tinkering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tinkering</span></a></p>
Wintermute_BBS<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oldbytes.space/@rc2014" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rc2014</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oldbytes.space/@electron_greg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>electron_greg</span></a></span> back in school we had a special, modular custom-bus based <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/intel8085" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intel8085</span></a> system to teach us about computers and programming.</p><p>It also had a switch panel and I fondly remember looking up opcodes in a photocopied table so that I knew which value to "toggle" next on the switches before writing it to a memory address. Hands on computing, the real way.</p><p>It was called <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MFA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MFA</span></a> (microcomputer für ausbildung - microcomputer for training) and it also ran CP/M and featured a <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Siemens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Siemens</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/SPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPS</span></a> module (god, I hate SPS). </p><p>It was this system I learned <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/intel8085" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intel8085</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/assembler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assembler</span></a> on.</p><p>P.S.: I guess this baby and the fond memory I have of it made me fall in love with <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/rc2014" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rc2014</span></a> decades later ...</p>
Radio Azureus<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nixCraft</span></a></span> <br>Compilation is supposed to longer than execution </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/assembler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assembler</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/compilation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compilation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/a_out" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>a_out</span></a></p>
Jure Repinc :linux: :kde:<p>A couple of days ago a new release 6.14 of KDE Frameworks came out and part of it is the syntax highlighting engine, used not only by KDE applications like Kate and KDevelop; but also by some others like Qt Creator.</p><p>I'm happy to report that this version also brings support for RISC-V instructions/registers/… in GNU Assembler, that I contributed:<br>🔗 <a href="https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/-/merge_requests/694" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">invent.kde.org/frameworks/synt</span><span class="invisible">ax-highlighting/-/merge_requests/694</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/RISCV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RISCV</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/RISC_V" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RISC_V</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/assembler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assembler</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/assembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assembly</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Kate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kate</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/editor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>editor</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/KDevelop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KDevelop</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/QtCreator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QtCreator</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Qt6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Qt6</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/IDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IDE</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/KDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KDE</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/KDEFrameworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KDEFrameworks</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://floss.social/@kde" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kde</span></a></span></p>
Paolo Amoroso<p>This tool allows to assemble Intel 8080/8085 Assembly code with NASM and is implemented as a NASM macro package.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/BinaryMelodies/nasm-i8080" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/BinaryMelodies/nasm</span><span class="invisible">-i8080</span></a></p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/intel8080" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intel8080</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NASM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NASM</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/assembler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assembler</span></a></p>
µP<p>Tracing back <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> language history to the root of the very first (mnemonic) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOTO</span></a> instruction (jump/branch) I found two different sources:</p><p>1. In 1954 Nathanael Rochester developed the "first" mnemonic <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/assembler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assembler</span></a> for the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> 701 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mainframe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mainframe</span></a> computer that uses "TR" jump commands: <a href="https://shrtn.escalar.pt/ZuE5" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">shrtn.escalar.pt/ZuE5</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>2. In 1947 the "manual" for the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Whirlwind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Whirlwind</span></a> computer contained the "sp x" mnemonic: <a href="https://shrtn.escalar.pt/FdYC" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">shrtn.escalar.pt/FdYC</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>So, which one was actually the "first" to use mnemonics for branching?</p>
GNU/Linux.ch<p>"Hello World" in Assembler</p><p>Mit einem Beispiel führt dieser Artikel in die Anfänge der Programmierung zurück. Viele von euch haben noch nie Maschinen-Code oder Assembler gesehen. Hier seht ihr es. </p><p><a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Assembler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Assembler</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Maschinen_Code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maschinen_Code</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a></p><p><a href="https://gnulinux.ch/hello-world-in-assembler" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gnulinux.ch/hello-world-in-ass</span><span class="invisible">embler</span></a></p>
Paolo Amoroso<p>Vasm is a portable and retargetable assembler that, in addition to the usual suspects like the 6502 and Z80, also supports several less popular CPU and microcontroller families such as the 6800, 6809, C16x/ST10, and more.</p><p><a href="http://sun.hasenbraten.de/vasm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">sun.hasenbraten.de/vasm</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/assembler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assembler</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/assembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assembly</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/z80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>z80</span></a></p>
BG Ollie<p>DONE! Yazz Flute and all. <br>I'm never touching Amiga Assembler ever again until next time :D </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amiga</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/assembler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assembler</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/demoscene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>demoscene</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a></p>
Paolo Amoroso<p>SpecOps is an assembler framework with s-exp syntax written in pure and portable Common Lisp. It provides backends for x86, Z80, 68K, and more.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/phantomics/specops" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/phantomics/specops</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/assembler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assembler</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/assembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assembly</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/CommonLisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommonLisp</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lisp</span></a></p>
data0<p>This is crazy. Someone managed to run <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> (v4.4) on an <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Intel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Intel</span></a> 4004 <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/CPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CPU</span></a> from 1971, one of the first commercially available microprocessors ever.</p><p>The craziest part: It became possible by writing a <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/MIPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MIPS</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/R3000" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>R3000</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/emulator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emulator</span></a> in 4004 <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/assembler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assembler</span></a> that fits into the 4096 bytes of addressable memory. The emulator then runs the kernel. My mind is blown.</p><p><a href="https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&amp;proj=35.%20Linux4004" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&amp;proj=</span><span class="invisible">35.%20Linux4004</span></a></p>
lj·rk<p>My <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/CompSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CompSci</span></a> lecturers often dropped the names of inventors. But only if they were men. We talked about Gordon Moore, obviously Turing 🏳️‍🌈 was mentioned, about Don Knuth, about Chomsky etc.</p><p>But when we discussed the <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ARM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ARM</span></a> architecture, we never talked about the inventor *Sophie Wilson*. We also never talked about *Mary Ann Horton*, despite her work on `vi` and `terminfo` -- but of course we mentioned Bill Joy. We discussed the Spanning Tree Protocol, but not its inventor *Radia Perlman*. We have the whole field of <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/SoftwareEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareEngineering</span></a>, but who coined the term? *Margaret Hamilton*. We mentioned the ENIAC and v. Neumann, but failed to talk about *Adele Goldstine*. We discussed the origins of <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/OOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OOP</span></a> and <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Smalltalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Smalltalk</span></a> but ignored *Adele Goldberg*. We programmed in <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Assembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Assembly</span></a> but never talked about the woman who wrote the first <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Assembler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Assembler</span></a>, *Kathleen Booth*. And don't get me started on <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Safari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Safari</span></a> and our sweet <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@lisamelton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lisamelton</span></a></span> &lt;3 Or any of the (incomplete list) of *Ida Rhodes, Carol Shaw, Shafi Goldwasser, Edith Clarke, Annie Easley, Joyce Little*, ...</p><p>And today? Let's talk about our favorite trans woman CPU designer, Lynn Conway.</p><p>1/2</p>
Shred<p>I'm here for more than a year now, and I still owe you a proper <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a>.</p><p>Hi, I'm Richard! I started <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> computers when I was about 9 years old. My first computer was a ZX81 (figure out how old I am now). <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> and software development has always been my passion. My favorite programming languages are <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Java" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Java</span></a>, <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a>, and <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MC68000" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MC68000</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Assembler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Assembler</span></a>. 😁​</p><p>If you follow me, you'll mainly read a lot of <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RetroComputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputer</span></a> stuff, especially about refurbishing and programming <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a>, <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/C64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>C64</span></a> and <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Sinclair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sinclair</span></a> machines. I also like <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/DIY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DIY</span></a> and <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/3Dprinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3Dprinting</span></a>. My other, much too much neglected interests are <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a>, <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/cooking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cooking</span></a> and <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a>.</p><p>I live in Germany. I post in English and German, and try my best to tag the language of my posts correctly. (You can filter languages on Mastodon!)</p><p>Nice to meet you! 😀​</p>
Amand Tihon<p>Long overdue <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> post.<br>Hi, I'm Amand, welcome here !</p><p>I'm a <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/sysadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sysadmin</span></a> from <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/Belgium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Belgium</span></a>. </p><p>I love <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> and <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/homebrewcomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homebrewcomputing</span></a> mostly because it gets me to better understand how computers work. </p><p>Also <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> in <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>python</span></a>, <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>C</span></a> and <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/assembler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assembler</span></a></p><p>Currently trying to make a <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/riscv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>riscv</span></a> processor using discrete logic. </p><p>My other hobbies include <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/hiking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hiking</span></a>, <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/woodworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>woodworking</span></a> and <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/woodturning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>woodturning</span></a>, <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gardening</span></a>, <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a>, and more.</p><p>I mostly post in English, sometimes in French.</p>
Richard Cole ¯\_(🧔🏻)_/¯<p>I posted my introduction some time ago, but failed to pin it, so here goes again.<br>I'm a <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/t1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>t1</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/diabetic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diabetic</span></a> retired <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/programmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programmer</span></a> writing mainly in <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/assembler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assembler</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/bal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/sql" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sql</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pascal</span></a> and other languages.<br>Things I like now are <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/diskworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diskworld</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/folkmusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>folkmusic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/dorset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dorset</span></a>.</p>