Lets translate all of the latest Slackware 64 bits stable version source code to Assembler. I'll join the project on July 1st...

Petri Kaukasoina · 05-24-2022, 09:20 AM

If you have c source in file.c, try 'gcc -S file.c' and you get file.s. It's assembler code.

Jeebizz · 05-24-2022, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by 1483_fourteeneightythree

All of it

. The kernel, the userland, the complete lastest stable release of Slackware.

Ok, good luck with that - we'll check in on you in about...10 years or so.

1483_fourteeneightythree · 05-24-2022, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by baumei

--> who on earth is going to maintain it for the next 5 or 10 years?

If there was a Slackware release during 2021 or 2022 and it can run Grand Theft Auto V, then I believe that Slackware is mature enough to be ported to Assembler even if nobody will update that port.

1483_fourteeneightythree · 05-24-2022, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeebizz

Ok, good luck with that - we'll check in on you in about...10 years or so.

We all love the IBM Thinkpads, right?

These are not pretty new.

Loomx · 05-25-2022, 02:41 AM

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Originally Posted by 1483_fourteeneightythree

...I believe that Slackware is mature enough to be ported to Assembler...

What on earth are you on about?

brianL · 05-25-2022, 03:52 AM

Binary is your computer's own, or first, language. Most people would prefer to be addressed in their own language, am I right? Same with computers. So be more considerate. Program in binary.
You know it makes sense. Have a nice day.

Loomx · 05-25-2022, 05:03 AM

Code:

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01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00001010 00000000 00000000
00000010 00000000 00111110 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000
01111000 00000000 01000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
01000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 01000000 00000000 00111000 00000000
00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000101 00000000 00000000 00000000
01000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
01000000 00000000 01000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00011111 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00011111 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
10111010 00000110 00000000 00000000 00000000 10111110 00001000 00000000
01000000 00000000 10111111 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 10111000
00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00001111 00000101 00110001 11111111
10111000 00111100 00000000 00000000 00000000 00001111 00000101

smallpond · 05-25-2022, 06:30 AM

Assembler is the past. Let's get Slackware running on a quantum computer.

Jeebizz · 05-25-2022, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by 1483_fourteeneightythree

We all love the IBM Thinkpads, right?

These are not pretty new.

I'd like them more, if they removed that stupid trackpad nipple in the middle of the keyboard, there is no point to it imo.

Overall though I am skeptical that your project will get off the ground. Also I forgot to ask, will you be doing both 32 and 64 bit transitions? And will you also be doing an ARM version? If yes to all, well then good luck - I am sure by the time you get any significant progress in this project, you will already be a few releases behind.

LuckyCyborg · 05-25-2022, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Jeebizz

I'd like them more, if they removed that stupid trackpad nipple in the middle of the keyboard, there is no point to it imo.

Overall though I am skeptical that your project will get off the ground. Also I forgot to ask, will you be doing both 32 and 64 bit transitions? And will you also be doing an ARM version? If yes to all, well then good luck - I am sure by the time you get any significant progress in this project, you will already be a few releases behind.

And humans have already colonized Alpha Centauri star system when he's ready...

philanc · 05-25-2022, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by LuckyCyborg

And humans have already colonized Alpha Centauri star system when he's ready...

Actually I think we should see this project as a tribute to the exceptional Slackware release stability. The OP probably studied the time intervals between recent Slackware releases, made an extrapolation and concluded that he would have far enough time to complete his rewrite.

Maybe the OP is right. It leaves me wondering whichever will come first: Slackware in assembly, Alpha Centauri colonization or Slackware 15.1

1483_fourteeneightythree · 05-26-2022, 12:02 AM

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Originally Posted by LuckyCyborg

And humans have already colonized Alpha Centauri star system when he's ready...

In planet earth: Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Out there in the space: Astro-Hungarian Empire.

First read about the A-H Empire in the summer of 2009, but I misread and understood Astro instead of Austrian.

The book is "esoteric", it isn't a history book.

It mentioned people speaking languages they had never learnt.

Ilgar · 05-26-2022, 03:17 AM

This is the kind of thing Zeus would have condemned Sisyphos to, had he known about assembly back in those days

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nobodino · 05-26-2022, 04:00 AM

Let the OP show what he's able to do.

I remember the first time I talk about Slackware From Scratch :

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ch-4175544231/

There were some skepticism about the possibility to achieve the project.

I recommend the OP to read the thread I mentioned above.

Good luck to your project.

Let us show what you've already done.

Create a github or gitlab project, so we can see the progress you've done.

brianL · 05-26-2022, 06:18 AM

What the OP is proposing to do is not the same as SFS. He wants to translate the entire Slackware source code from whatever language into assembly language.
I'm no expert (that's obvious to all other Slackers

), but that seems like a bigger task, and not as useful.