Show HN: Avremu – An 8-Bit Microcontroller in Pure LaTeX
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Show HN: Avremu – An 8-Bit Microcontroller in Pure LaTeX
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Re: Show HN: Avremu – An 8-Bit Microcontroller in Pure LaTeX
#2To be pedantic: this code is largely in TeX, not LaTeX.
Re: Show HN: Avremu – An 8-Bit Microcontroller in Pure LaTeX
#3To be pedantic: this code is largely in TeX, not LaTeX.
This is true, but largly in TeX and only Parts of it in LaTeX is still LaTeX. But you're right, I did use only a few rudimentary features.
Re: Show HN: Avremu – An 8-Bit Microcontroller in Pure LaTeX
#4Nice work, though I liked the dataref package even more!
Re: Show HN: Avremu – An 8-Bit Microcontroller in Pure LaTeX
#5"Are you insane?
Not that anybody knows of."
hahaha that cracked me up, especially that i actually considered the possibility when i read the title.
Re: Show HN: Avremu – An 8-Bit Microcontroller in Pure LaTeX
#6To be pedantic: this code is largely in TeX, not LaTeX.
This is true, but largly in TeX and only Parts of it in LaTeX is still LaTeX. But you're right, I did use only a few rudimentary features.
I think this is the minority view of LaTeX: it's built on top of and is a subset of TeX, not a superset. No one would ever consider \def to be LaTeX for example.
Not to denigrate what you produced of course.
Re: Show HN: Avremu – An 8-Bit Microcontroller in Pure LaTeX
#7This is mental and I love it.
Re: Show HN: Avremu – An 8-Bit Microcontroller in Pure LaTeX
#8Nice work, though I liked the dataref package even more!
The dataref package is intended to be useful (and it acutally is). Avremu was only a long trip in sweden without internet, an editor and a reference manual.
Re: Show HN: Avremu – An 8-Bit Microcontroller in Pure LaTeX
#9That reminds me of this, a slightly bigger AVR emulating an ARM SoC running Linux:
http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=07.+Linux+on+8...
Emulate that system instead, and now you can theoretically boot a Linux system inside of TeX.
Re: Show HN: Avremu – An 8-Bit Microcontroller in Pure LaTeX
#10That reminds me of this, a slightly bigger AVR emulating an ARM SoC running Linux: http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=07.+Linux+on+8... Emulate that system instead, and now you can theoretically boot a Linux system inside of TeX.
I already considered that, but until now i did not implement many peripheral devices. But when implemented those, it should be possible. But at the moment i'm rather thinking of an VHDL netlist emulator in TeX.