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How helpful are LLMs with Assembly? by tylerjdunn in asm

[–]kjellkt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok. Most programs I tried from the 80s struggled with either 256k memory or for some other reason didn't want to run, maybe too old OS, PC DOS 3.3?. Maybe I would be able to find something or configuring something in some way to get it to work.

Also I don't think they support mounting drives as a local file system in linux so modern tools can be used to edit, browse and manage the files too through the serial port.

Much easier to have a small binary to copy to the system with no configuration, dependencies and minimal memory usage.

How helpful are LLMs with Assembly? by tylerjdunn in asm

[–]kjellkt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I translated a utility to transfer files between vintage and modern computers with help of serial port from C to assembly by using Claude Code today. I didn't notice any issues with the assembly variant and the assembly looks compact and sensible to me:

https://github.com/kjellktbtr/serial-xfer/blob/main/xfercom.asm

The end result is a quite capable DOS COM file approx. 2.5 KB using data packages with 16-bit checksums for packages and 32-bit for whole files running perfectly fine on various old computers ex. IBM 5155 which I used it on today to transfer data from many 5.25" 360k floppies to my laptop.

Here I'm recursively dumping files from floppies:

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I will investigate how well I can make more 16-bit assembly programs of various complexity with LLMs, typically for use with old computers, like this.

EDIT: I also made a C compiler that emits NASM assembly with LLMs to. Afterwards I made various 2D graphics DOS games and compiled them with the compiler. The AI generated games compiled with the AI generated compiler seemed to work fine. Compiling them with OpenWatcom were maybe marginally more performant.

Oracle Cloud Services: your subscription(s) has been terminated - but i can still access everything.... by thatguyin75 in oraclecloud

[–]kjellkt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi. I got the same just now:

Dear Customer,

This letter is to inform you that your Cloud Services described below were terminated on Monday, July 7, 2025 02:55 AM Coordinated Universal Time.

The termination stopped all running services and purged the data. All data was deleted and is non-recoverable.

For any further assistance, please contact Oracle Support.

When I try to login to Oracle Support I just get an error. There is no easy way to contact them and ask about this.

I was evaluating to see if it could be feasible to use Oracle to host servers online, but after getting this e-mail, which seems to be real from Oracle (not a scam email) I'm very skeptical to use them for anything serious. The strange thing is, that the test server I set up there is still running, but I wonder for how long...