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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yhetil.org; s=key1; t=1645718245; h=from:from:sender:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references:list-id:list-help: list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-post; bh=QKLw+pE3HLCci9b5ZFFQ2Q5TjpELZCsEy8vmPmxGcl4=; b=i65prPUC+GFfumekYyk+fh+hd3nFWncxSid6DsE3qTScrdzAdnfdmHLiWZtOh3KvtDXUpz m4c3o0ryqSbmQ2I2BhHy7dl3JXEv5DvFaltdZU4B74kcHdEO4H+G+7wddeudxUGC4wqi6e a9id5vXkp61M2kqUPme4p82jaCpQKGFjVw1XUYIgbPj3o7ibGyFms9nTZ9cVkgsLlJ9N2z fB1NuGUJYaxtWYbnOHdoTiKDMZhk8gLUOeAUNLXIGnWMJv4CTTT7cVi8TNeRfKN/VnyONB mMcnR6SrQ5PkPRWGaHjzvFWPfnIJRhz2bWrPRGDy5ZXx7twcDCBj/MRMSCyWOw== ARC-Seal: i=1; s=key1; d=yhetil.org; t=1645718245; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=GIobNvyMOKwGHnKsTtUpwe+pV+MZMyNs4lOwTt4gTNFa4ocXWb02F5s2O6tJimXpndIy7w YSXC0YPj3246Eo989P+k+m+8aGx/XCTH4xjmsii0POvTuXk8vmn5k4PVquhtFr4jE5/N3U S3jnQS3Oa8gU721h9J3UY7rn691ds3wOgGwuuSTRma/IPwndV4gaoxUze6ez/z9xY9aik5 +3o2QsAXQx9f206Sk/en7xVf5v0jgJEHldRwAOcoP6r85e/Cf8ZWlTez6szHmKbtaIsGk4 dzxQApQJqyYjsEUAplZNQiLvYGU3FM8Ihn6SMlseWIebMsOFOh8hC9GfKQkFmw== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -4.23 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 850A8360A8 X-Spam-Score: -4.23 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn0.migadu.com X-TUID: +n9Es7IyIfbB On Wed, 2022-02-23 at 22:54 +0100, Stefan Karrmann wrote: > for octal keyboard input on x86:             32 octets (!) >   - for octal uninitialized serial input on x86: 34 octets >   - for octal initialized serial input on x86:   41 octets >   - for octal linux input on x86:                48 octets > >   - for octet keyboard input on x86:             18 octets >     This make sense, if we use the alt numpad input method. > > For those, who don't regard octal encoded octets as real source code, > I > provide a second binary seed which implements a forth nucleus. I call > it > itf or indirection table forth. > The sizes for this interpreter are much bigger than the sizes of the > monitors but still small in comparision to a boot sector (512 > octets): That looks interesting, I have been thinking about something similar for the Rasperry PI GPU, which has been reverse engineered. Tobias