Re: A major milestone in bootstrapping

2018-08-29 Thread Joshua Branson
jerem...@pdp10.guru writes: > > Soon we hope to finish the MesCC bootstrap from M2-Planet and then we > will have a complete bootstrap path from 250byte hex0 all the way up to > gcc ^_^ Wow! Just Wow! I have a question though. It sounds like a bunch of this is assembly...Is assembly portable?

Re: [rb-general] A major milestone in bootstrapping

2018-08-29 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB) writes: >> Interesting... I'm looking at >> https://github.com/oriansj/M2-Planet/blob/master/seed.M1 >> How was it written? It seems like a monumental task to write all >> that and keep enough context in one's head! > Then again, I have >> never written assembly before...

RE: [rb-general] A major milestone in bootstrapping

2018-08-27 Thread Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB)
> Interesting... I'm looking at > https://github.com/oriansj/M2-Planet/blob/master/seed.M1 > How was it written? It seems like a monumental task to write all that and > keep enough context in one's head! > Then again, I have never written > assembly before... If you'll notice https://github.co

Re: A major milestone in bootstrapping

2018-08-27 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
jerem...@pdp10.guru writes: > Today I am proud to announce a combo of releases with major milestones. > > First stage0, reached Release version 0.2.0; which includes the following: > A 250byte hex0 bootstrap binary that is self-hosting and builds hex1, > which builds hex2, which bootstraps M0 macr

A major milestone in bootstrapping

2018-08-26 Thread Jeremiah
Today I am proud to announce a combo of releases with major milestones. First stage0, reached Release version 0.2.0; which includes the following: A 250byte hex0 bootstrap binary that is self-hosting and builds hex1, which builds hex2, which bootstraps M0 macro assembly which has been used to make