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I'm sure people said in the 1980s that open-source free compilers and open-source free operating systems were also an insane endeavor. A little research turns

I'm sure people said in the 1980s that open-source free compilers and open-source free operating systems were also an insane endeavor. A little research turns up this claim: > "In 1987, the Borland Turbo C compiler for MS-DOS was priced at $99, while the Microsoft C compiler for MS-DOS was priced at $495. On the other hand, the Sun Microsystems SPARCstation C compiler for the SPARC platform was priced at $7,500." I also think this is an area where OpenAI / GPT code generation will have a huge impact. It should be possible, given open-source hardware specs, to build the appropriate drivers for any operating system (i.e. Linux) quite quickly with the assistance of these new tools.

qikInNdOutReply 4y ago
Are you aware how lowlevel hardware often works? Its basically .. write value 0xDEADBEEF to adress 0x00A0. Wait three cycles, while the underlying hardware performs some steps, to switch into a different mode, then continue with operations in said mode. This seems something that is very unintuitive, even with the given documentation (which one often does not get). Often enough, all that is available is the assembly itself (thus reverse engineer). So how does chat gpt do with just the assembly? Can it write documentation on a given hardware plattform, just given the assembly?