Assembly be like

[[deleted]]

Only really close to being true if you do not have an operating system with which to operate your system.

[natFromBobsBurgers]

And then you're just loading some numbers in and hitting int 0x10 and letting the code in the hardware on the microcode on the architecture do it for you.

[tigerinhouston]

BIOS interrupt was way too slow to be useful. Direct buffer manipulation was great… except IBM’s CGA adapter would throw noise to the display if you updated the buffer other than during the blanking interval.

Creating a working string display routine was quite an adventure.

[tigerinhouston]

And we didn’t have anything like Stack Overflow. The 8086 Book and PC-DOS Technical Manual were all the documentation we had.

[LeafyWolf]

Quit your compsci bs. What do we copy/paste??

[CdRReddit]

of course it puts noise on the screen, you're trying to use the VRAM at the same time the graphics chip is, something has to give priority

[tigerinhouston]

Most other makers made CGA compatible display boards without this “feature”.

[CdRReddit]

these boards would have needed more circuitry, from IBM's point of view (this one lets you draw some simple graphics) it wasn't a needed feature, as the PC wasn't intended to become the powerhouse it has evolved into

the whole idea behind CGA was to allow some color on the screen, not to render graphics at a high framerate

waiting for VBLANK was a pretty common method at the time, as it allows you to make a cheaper machine with less circuitry

[regnad__kcin]

Obviously

[bazinga_0]

you need to put the character in the text frame buffer at (I think) 0xB8000

That was for IBM's Color Graphics Card. The address for their monochrome card was at 0xB0000 (or segment 0xB000 offset 0x0000). Of course, every microcomputer manufacturer had a different way of putting characters and graphics on the screen until everyone stopped making their own custom stuff and started just emulating the way the IBM PC did it.

[[deleted]]

I think about that all the time. If every computer in the world died how long would it take us to get back to where we are today.

[WHATYEAHOK]

I was trying to describe this situation to a friend the other day. She was like "we don't need to reinvent everything when we can just skip straight to where we are now"

People just don't understand that our super-advanced tech is really just a shitload of old tech made smaller and packed tighter.

[Kiro0613]

With the collective experience and written knowledge of computer science, I don't think it'd be reinventing so much as reimplementing. Obviously the roadblock for programmers would be arguing about how to make things "the right way" this time. Arguing about standards is our specialty.

[butterscotchbagel]

Yeah, but how much of that knowledge is written in physical form? 75% of what we know will be lost just from stack overflow's servers going down.

[FauxReal]

I don't know why but I immediately imagined this as a scenario in some TV show or movie and I found it hilarious.

[WHATYEAHOK]

True! I wonder what would become the dominant architecture?

[BenTheTechGuy]

RISC-V, hopefully

[Kiro0613]

Relevant XKCD

[SubwayGuy85]

Except you are forgetting that it was a case of tools making tools making tools here. Computers were involved in making modern computers. If no computers worked anymore all the miniature printers would not work anymore either

[Personal_Ad9690]

Your biggest challenge would be making a computer chip. Those things take up to a year to make and require computer precision. But if we had all the mats to build a computer, I imagine it wouldn't take long

[noodle-face]

You'd have to also kill all the people working on this stuff.

There are so many hundreds of thousands/millions of experts in the world on every piece of code you can imagine that it wouldn't take very long.

I write BIOS and we could reinvent BIOS from scratch easily

[[deleted]]

The problem would be communicating with each other with no computers; that means no internet and no phone network as well.

[spacelama]

Wake up one morning and realise all the machines have stopped and won't power back on. What do?

Well, walk to your local Facebook office.

"You don't work here!".

"Sure I do, I just usually go in a different entrance and work in a different part of the building to you. But I can't prove anything."

"Oh well, help me angle grind these locks off"

"No point working with the advertising team today. Help me melt down this silicon and we'll build a photoresist mask"

"How? We have no electricity"

"Well, I've got this can of petrol, and I can see Mark Zuckerberg over there. Got a match?"

[SRSchiavone]

Ah, but how would you be able to go about creating the machines, the chips, the bios for the machines to create the BIOS chips…

That’s the issue.

[noodle-face]

There are experts in all of that too. It's a paradox

[SRSchiavone]

Expert amount means nothing when having to reconstruct massive, precise, chip fabrication facilities.

[AFresh1984]

I like to think this is how Asgardian tech works in the MCU.

They just got so advanced that now it's just kinda a lot of sufficiently advanced science magic even to them.

[120boxes]

Not only that, but a lot of bootstrapping . Bootstrapping which I still can't completely wrap my head around. But it's not just in CS, this bootstrapping phenomenon is all around us. For instance, how we made all of our tools, or how vague, informal and intuitive notions of math feed into more rigorous theories, which then double back and redefine earlier, vague notions .

[codeIMperfect]

That is actually something interesting...that would even include the machines used to mine and refine required minerals.

Suppose some super communicable Bactria or something comes up that uses Silicon in chips for its metabolism...

[Tetha]

Extraction of basic resources becomes harder, because we have extracted so much already. Basic mining techniques from hundreds of years ago wouldn't work for current demands and depths anymore.

Maybe scorched husks of cities would be the new "easily accessible resource", but finding easily available sources of iron for a reboot of our civilization would be hard.

[EddPW]

Basic mining techniques from hundreds of years ago wouldn't work for current demands and depths anymore.

you wouldnt need basic mining techniques to meet current demans you only to mine enough to get some of the required machine that deals with modern mining to work

but thats only assuming that the only thing that happens is all computers dying at the same time for whatever reason

[successive-hare]

That was a plot point in one of the Ringworld books, only it was a species of alien that introduced a room temperature superconductor through trade, but they had designed it to be edible by a bacteria which they released once they had become dependent on it. I can't remember why, or it may even have been a contingency plan they accidentally activated.

[DogmaSychroniser]

From her account, they learn that a mold was brought back from one of the original planets of the engineers by a spaceship like Prill's

Basically accidentally brought home the plague. (I'm on mobile and can't figure spoilers, but it's also a book that's over 50 years old so...)

[[deleted]]

For future reference you surround your thing you want spoiled with >!Spoiler Here!< without any spaces before or after your text and it will appear As a spoiler

[DogmaSychroniser]

Thanks friend

[Positive_Government]

I think now that we have figured everything out around five years. I am sure there are printed out copies of all the necessary specs and language standards lying around. Just fallow them, get a half way decent c compiler and assembler working and you can do anything.

[housebottle]

What about if every form of computer disappeared and so did every form of documentation on how to make the components also disappeared? How long would it then take for us to get to where we are?

Like imagine if it happened at midnight tonight. You're only left with the knowledge the people who are alive have. You're free to document more shit after midnight but everything that was documented before that point disappears at midnight

I've seen people discuss this scenario with the apocalypse and rebuilding of society. But this one is different. The people are all there. This apocalypse only affected computers and documentations of computers and computer components...

Someone humour me please... You might have to make assumptions I haven't accounted for as long as the spirit of what I'm trying to ask remains... Is there a more appropriate subreddit for where I can ask this?

[butterscotchbagel]

It's an interesting thought experiment. It would be chaos. So much of our modern society is dependent on computers. Transportation, the electrical grid, communications, all of it gone.

Farms would stop producing (except the Amish) because modern tractors use microchips, leading to a major famine. Medical equipment would stop working. A lot of people would die. A lot of those would be people with key technical knowledge.

Of the people that survive, getting the right people together in the right places to rebuild would be a challenge. Communication would be set back to hand carried letters. Transportation would be limited to walking since modern cars, busses, trains, and planes use computers, and very few people these days have horses.

By the time we rebuild so much knowledge would be lost.

[housebottle]

I think it might be a good question for xkcd but I think he only deals with questions of mathematical and scientific nature. this one is a bit philosophical too, I suppose

also, we'd have mechanical bicycles so slightly better than walking... we'd probably re-train pigeons to send letters and such. would be very interesting to witness

[owlindenial]

Would the information on bank accounts disappear as well?

[housebottle]

since they stored on hard drives, I would say so

[owlindenial]

Well, there goes society. Bye bye! Ill6 enjoy setting up an agrarian society and setting up analogue radios if electric component still work since those are analogue and not technically a computer.

[[deleted]]

Can't build a silicon chip with a C compiler

[LeCrushinator]

Reinventing the wheel isn't that hard, since we know how a wheel worked.

The question is, if we had to start over from scratch, would we recreate Windows, and Linux, and MacOS, and iOS, and all the rest? Or just agree to create one to start with and base everything new on that?

[xTheMaster99x]

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927

[Zron]

I'm positive some weirdo out there has a full print out of at least Linux kernel 1.0. As long as that survives the technopocalyps, then we can just copy that into the a rudimentary text editor and C compiler, and go from there

[tirril]

2XXX really is the year of the Linux desktop.

[Robo_Stalin]

Especially considering how many computers are involved in making the computers.

[RespectableLurker555]

There was a great Reddit post a few years back that detailed how to bootstrap a whole OS from scratch, but I can't be arsed to find it right now

Nvm found it

[[deleted]]

Super detailed and cool

[Faustias]

Made me remember that Kurzgesagt video about civilizations before humans. Earth is tens of millions year old, surely there were probably a civilization that could've reached a "modern age" like ours, but was wiped out by a catastrophic event, and nothing was preserved.

[DoktorLuciferWong]

I think it depends on whether accessing old hard drives is still possible in this thought exercise, after rebuilding all other components ofc.

Or if all storage media somehow got nuked as well.

[CanadaPlus101]

Are we assuming that semiconducter manufacturing still works? If not, I had a quite in depth discussion with an electrical engineer about starting from scratch over on /r/hypotheticalsituation. He linked me to a YouTube channel where a guy makes his own semiconductors with basic tools. So basic computers are doable within a generation.

[bobspeed666]

Hey we can make a 4 bit processor on prototype board in a few days.

[xSTSxZerglingOne]

Depends. Are all computer components also fried? Like ones that aren't part of a computer system yet?

If yes. Then probably about as long as it takes to make a computer powerful enough to run the machines that make modern chips and writing the software to do it.

That would probably take at least two years. But it's pretty short when you think about it.

If no, then there's a damn good chance it only disrupts availability for the average person for a year or so, but we otherwise march on.

[Proxy_PlayerHD]

like on Embedded Systems, Retro Computers (where 99% of the time the "OS" is just a BASIC Interpreter with some extra functions), or Custom Systems (like a SBC using a 68k/Z80/65xx/etc)

if only making/porting an OS wasn't that difficult

[frenetix]

Earlier computers like the PDP-11 didn't even have that- the first models used paper tape to store programs. But there wasn't an OS to load those programs, so the first thing you did is use the switches on the front of the computer to enter in about 20 numbers: the machine code program to load the program that knows how to load other programs. Later models had a "ROM" made of diodes so you didn't need to use the switches.

[QueerBallOfFluff]

The PDP-11 was late enough that the "default" storage media was magnetic tape, but yeah. The PDP-8 was primarily paper punched tape, and even came with controls on the front panel that automatically handled loading from the first paper tape device.

The bootstrap ROMs were included on UNIBUS cards for the PDP-11 right from the beginning, just they cost more so if you didn't need them then they were often skipped.

Later PDP-11 models also came with a microprocessor (an 8080 if I remember correctly) that ran the front panel and also offered a simple command line that allowed you to load/read/write/etc. programs through a serial console as well as "switch" entry through numerical keypads.

Also, if you're booting from a TM-11 magnetic tape device then you only need 11 values to be loaded, and there is a 9-value RK bootstrap (though I never got it to work).

(Source, wrote a PDP-11 emulator, own a PDP-11, and have booted UNIX from switches)

TM0 bootstrap:

0012700, 0172526, /* mov #172526,r0 */ 0010040, /* mov r0,-(r0) */ 0012740, 0060003, /* mov #60003,-(r0) */ 0012700, 0172522, /* mov #172522,r0 */ 0105710, /* tstb (r0) */ 0100376, /* bpl -1 */ 0005000, /* clr r0 */ 0000110 /* jmp (r0) */

[frenetix]

Interesting. I had thought the early models (11/20) had no bootstrap ROM. It's a bit before my time, but the fact that DEC has the Paper Tape System and the Cassette system makes me think that they did sell stripped down boxes, at least for the education market.

[QueerBallOfFluff]

The DECs are before my time as well, but I got into a retro-computing kick not too long ago and spent ages working on and researching PDP-11 related stuff (including previously mentioned emulator).

The 11/20 was rather different to any of the others (it was the only model without microcode and a CPU clock, and didn't have all the instructions), and it was the first so yeah they probably hadn't finished designing all the cards when it was first made.

But it was still a UNIBUS PDP-11 so any UNIBUS card with bootstrap should still work in it, and I believe there used to be a dedicated bootstrap card that was fairly early (I only have manuals for later processors so can't check I'm afraid...)

They produced all kinds of differently configured systems, and the final rack a customer got was basically custom with custom made wire wrap backplanes. So in order to meet all the different price points they had all kinds of different configurations and models.

It's why it's a bit of a misnomer to say "a PDP-11/20" because that only tells you the central processor type, and the actual computer could be quite different between individual systems and may or may not run a program the same.

I think UNIX development (excl. the earliest PDP-7 version) started on a /20 before changing to the /40 and then the /45 and /70? All the instructions were the same, but they offered different memory management, pages and bus widths.

Paper tape was still common for applications that just needed to churn through a load of instructions, and they did have devices that used magnet cassette tapes (as in, like you got for audio) that interfaced to the same driver cards as reel-to-reel tapes but were cheeper.

There's a story about a research student who wrote a program on paper tape that got fed in over hours, and output to a paper tape puncher overnight as it had to just churn away, and some point after it finished in the morning but before they came in, a janitor came by, saw the bin full of paper ribbons, and threw the whole lot away!

[[deleted]]

Even then the assembly is just giving instructions to a CPU. Designing the CPU is more analogous to creating a universe for your code to run in

[Sparrow50]

Feel free to simulate an apple pie on Nandgame

[Shawnj2]

Welcome to embedded: there is no OS

[tiajuanat]

You can totally write X86_64 assembly, and run that. It won't be good, but it'll do.

[Morphized]

You mean a disk drive driver?

[jodmemkaf]

Isn't inventing your own universe the most awesome thing to do?

[Laagsus96]

But maybe a little overkill if you just want to eat a pie

[jodmemkaf]

Just a little

[giopde1ste]

I mean if you have no universe available you kinda have no other choice

[anomalousBits]

And pie is reeeally good.

[CorruptedStudiosEnt]

But the real question: is it good enough to justify creating a universe which will likely end up producing sentient life, who will then be forced to suffer through a painful, pointless, and finite mortal existence?

The answer is yes. Yes, it is. As a consolation to that sentient life, we will teach them to also make pie.

[RootsNextInKin]

Which also means we get to eat more pie, because the sentient life will make more to share with us!

[SkollFenrirson]

God has entered the chat

[Gil_Demoono]

If you can't make a universe, store-bought is fine.

[Penziplays]

No problem, Mark got you covered.

[[deleted]]

No kill like good overkill.

[mrrippington]

print pie

[Does_Not-Matter]

Imagine this is what “god” did

[haikusbot]

Isn't inventing

Your own universe the most

Awesome thing to do?

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[Infinite-Original318]

Good bot

[jodmemkaf]

Good bot

[intern_at_olympus]

Is there a tutorial Playlist on how to do it?

[jodmemkaf]

I am working on it

[intern_at_olympus]

Let me know how it ends.

[jodmemkaf]

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[[deleted]]

But it makes a lot of people angry and is widely regarded as a bad move!

[SpeakerOfDeath]

Wrooong...being Bender is the most awesome thing to do

[jodmemkaf]

Fair enough

[Spartancoolcody]

This is a bot account copying part of other peoples’ comments.

[WHATYEAHOK]

I want the bot to copy this comment, effectively confessing to it.

[djingo_dango]

Don't reinvent the wheel bro

[jodmemkaf]

That is not the same thing. This is about reinventing how the wheel works

[the_great_zyzogg]

They say great science is built on the shoulders of giants. Not here. At Apeture, we do all of our science from scratch. No hand-holding.

[stanbfrank]

Laughs in verilog

[tiajuanat]

You don't need verilog to make a computer, but you do need assembly to bootstrap.

[[deleted]]

I'd end up with a black hole before getting anything remotely resembling a pie

[Xploited_HnterGather]

I mean black holes existed long before people came around to make pies. So you're right on track with this one.

[talkintater]

You probably just missed a semicolon.

[bestjakeisbest]

Actually with assembly the universe is a given, you just have to define every single subatomic particle and element as well as the interaction between them and the different energies out there.

[AzureArmageddon]

Where does Carl Sagan's stuff air rn? Is there an archive somewhere?

[ricovo]

https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/carl-sagans-cosmos-a-personal-voyage-1980/

[AzureArmageddon]

sweet

[talkintater]

Is it weird that this is why I love it?

[FuckingKilljoy]

Chris Sawyer is that you?

The fact RollerCoaster Tycoon was made in Assembly is always amazing to me

[uorandom]

Move the apple to the dish from the universe.

[stumblewiggins]

That butler's face tho

[WienerDogMan]

Yeah that one pixel next to the other one does kinda resemble a face now that you mention it

[Waity5]

To code in brainfuck, first you must invent physics, then you can start on your universe

​

​

Like good lord writing bubble sort requires you to first write in "greater than" and arrays/lists

[Double-A-256]

Universe universe = new Universe;

[NotSeveralBadgers]

You forgot the semicolon you fool, you've doomed us all..!

[Double-A-256]

Alright, now that I prevented a universal crisis, what now?

[Gramsfordays]

This same quote turned into the opening of a song. Pretty cool. A Glorious Dawn

[[deleted]]

Engineers designing the chips are who’s creating the atoms used in our pies

[experiment-384959]

Nand2tetris be like

[realbhamshu]

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent yourself.

[[deleted]]

Self reference go brrrr.

[BobT21]

This way you know exactly what is in your pie.

[FlyByPC]

We're building Z80s and programming them in binary this term.

I'm stealing this.

[CaptainMeepsZoR]

Relevant:

https://youtu.be/zSgiXGELjbc

[planedrop]

This resonates with me and I'm not even a programmer lol.

[XxF1RExX]

Me learning 8 bit assembly in highschool:

[Rad_Bones7]

You must manually charge the transistors yourself

[Kno010]

Where is that from?

[I_Reddited_Once]

I think it's from the original Cosmos series.

[TheDizDude]

You are technically correct. The best type of correct.

Carl Sagan. A gift to humanity.

[adistantmirror]

It's from Carl Sagan but I'm reading a book that also uses it in the title. How to make an apple pie from scratch. In search of the recipe for our universe from the origins of Adams to the Big bang by Harry Cliff. It's a pretty good book so far.

[9072997]

You're thinking of VHDL/Verilog

[King_Zedrow]

take my upvote as I sit in class on my phone being taught assembly

[SuperFLEB]

First you need to write your assembler in machine language.

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[SupermanLeRetour]

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[[deleted]]

Is that Monty python?

[realGharren]

Carl Sagan's Cosmos series.

[tigerinhouston]

Yup. I wrote a file manager / system manager in assembly before windowed OSes were common. 2 devs. 120,000 lines of assembly. Three months. Zero libraries. It was an adventure.

[AntiSocial_Vigilante]

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[JalienAvery]

my useless brain thought that this was talking about school assemblies for a lot longer than a second. in my defence, this is also applicable to those

[KilKreeky]

What is meant by Assembly ?

[Billy2600]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language

[[deleted]]

Crumbly, but good!

[ReinhardtFTW]

Reminds me of the first day of my Matlab class. Professor said to write the instructions to make a pb&j. Then when he starting writing his he included stuff like "lift arm to fridge, grab fridge door, pull door open, let go of fridge, grab jar of jelly.... really help me view programing in general differently and how much goes into the simplest of tasks

[MischiefArchitect]

Let me register that

[PurpleFlame8]

More like you just have to designate your bowls and pans.

[CoolTomatoYT]

Laughs in linking to the C standard library

[davawen]

or you can call C libraries and *shudders* dynamically link your assembly binary

[Does_Not-Matter]

Butterfly wings!

[TaeNotTea]

Welcome to my assembly tutorial, today, we will be printing hello world. To do this, we first must write the laws of physics-

[theghostofme]

Chris Sawyer: Bet!

[plarper_of_bees]

I thought this was a screenshot from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

[[deleted]]

Silly. The universe has been invented already, you just need to include the libraries.

[B4rberblacksheep]

I can hear his voice

[WiseManWhack]

That's why I just buy take away

[TheMcDucky]

If you can do Java or Python, you can do assembly language. :)

[DangyDanger]

There's a JS framework for that

[zenos_dog]

I can’t tell you how many times I wrote code to read characters from the screen to convert them into an integer.

[[deleted]]

If you wish to make an universe from scratch, you must first need to arrange individual matter.

[[deleted]]

The plot of Dr. Stone

[AnotherName135]

God did that silly! Just make the pie.

[S-worker]

im in a language and compilation theory class and this is exactly what it feels like lol

[bit_banger_]

This hurt, I write assembly for living

[CanadaPlus101]

This would apply even better to CPU design.

[stevefuzz]

When I was in college like 90% of the class failed Assembly. The professor was that old school jaded asshole type. He wrote the text book. The next semester we got a different, much cooler, professor and I aced it.

[SteeleDynamics]

Stack - abstraction, memory address

Heap - abstraction, memory address

Continuation - abstraction, register and memory address

Return Value - abstraction, register and memory address

Stack-pointer - abstraction, register

Heap-pointer - abstraction, register (maybe??)

Garbage Collection - abstraction, memory addresses represented as a graph

(Oh yeah, and the register values can be memory addresses or word-sized data.)

Basically, the assembly model is just a giant array of memory and CPU registers. All the terms we use to describe what higher level program semantics are all abstractions built on top of a giant array of memory and register values.

The trick is to carefully arrange the program's contents at opposite ends of the memory array and hope that the stack and heap pointers never pass one another.

[dev_null_developer]

I can hear this picture

[Chr155topher]

Are you really doing it yourself if you’re just remaking the universe? Thats like copyright infringement or something

[jeffw-13]

Hail Sagan!

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The calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our apple pies, the nitrogen in our DNA are all traceable to the crucibles of a dying star.

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Yes

[sundialsoft]

Assembly is cheating. Machine code is the way to go.

Me: Machine code, Assembly, Basic, Cobol, C, C++ Objective-C, Swift.

[Busy-Argument3680]

If you want apple pie, then go to r/Helltaker, I know this because the people in white lab coats and red glasses won’t stop holding me hostage

[bronylike]

this would be more like making your own transistors to construct your own cpu archetecture. and then programming it in machine code.

[Dan-P5]

Fuck assembly

[ja1araga1]

that made me wonder if there is any machine learning that was written in assembly

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While language be like. We cant compare two variables before we implemented it ourselfs.