top | item 29129164 (no title) dawkins | 4 years ago Great read. They wrote a DOS in 35 days using punch cards. Amazing. discuss order hn newest alecco|4 years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/ogtptv/how... jonsen|4 years ago For some perspective:Say the size of the OS was 10kB. That's about 4000 lines of assembler code.About 100 lines (cards) of code per day. alisonkisk|4 years ago Is it so small because the OS basically had no drivers or interfaces, just bare CPU/RAM/peripheral messaging, and apps sent low-level binary messages directly to the hardware? More "EE" than "CS"? load replies (1) ggnotez|4 years ago [deleted] xattt|4 years ago Are there modern-day examples of impressive bootstrapping? APFS comes to mind. jason-phillips|4 years ago > Are there modern-day examples of impressive bootstrapping?JavaScript and Brendan Eich may be considered modernish-day. load replies (1) zerr|4 years ago First Pascal compiler was written in Pascal and hand-compiled to machine code. load replies (1) drno123|4 years ago Maybe git, and JavaScript? nom|4 years ago maybe Minecraft?
jonsen|4 years ago For some perspective:Say the size of the OS was 10kB. That's about 4000 lines of assembler code.About 100 lines (cards) of code per day. alisonkisk|4 years ago Is it so small because the OS basically had no drivers or interfaces, just bare CPU/RAM/peripheral messaging, and apps sent low-level binary messages directly to the hardware? More "EE" than "CS"? load replies (1) ggnotez|4 years ago [deleted]
alisonkisk|4 years ago Is it so small because the OS basically had no drivers or interfaces, just bare CPU/RAM/peripheral messaging, and apps sent low-level binary messages directly to the hardware? More "EE" than "CS"? load replies (1)
xattt|4 years ago Are there modern-day examples of impressive bootstrapping? APFS comes to mind. jason-phillips|4 years ago > Are there modern-day examples of impressive bootstrapping?JavaScript and Brendan Eich may be considered modernish-day. load replies (1) zerr|4 years ago First Pascal compiler was written in Pascal and hand-compiled to machine code. load replies (1) drno123|4 years ago Maybe git, and JavaScript? nom|4 years ago maybe Minecraft?
jason-phillips|4 years ago > Are there modern-day examples of impressive bootstrapping?JavaScript and Brendan Eich may be considered modernish-day. load replies (1)
zerr|4 years ago First Pascal compiler was written in Pascal and hand-compiled to machine code. load replies (1)
alecco|4 years ago
jonsen|4 years ago
Say the size of the OS was 10kB. That's about 4000 lines of assembler code.
About 100 lines (cards) of code per day.
alisonkisk|4 years ago
ggnotez|4 years ago
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xattt|4 years ago
jason-phillips|4 years ago
JavaScript and Brendan Eich may be considered modernish-day.
zerr|4 years ago
drno123|4 years ago
nom|4 years ago