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1 .SH 100r.co |
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2 Uxn portable assembly language |
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3 . |
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4 .PP |
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5 The web is well-known for its drift toward \fIplatform effect\fR: |
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6 reproducing the features of the underlying operating system from |
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7 one of its applications, in this case, the web browser. |
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8 This is largely made possible through javascript, and the advent |
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9 of WebAssembly can only contribute more to this. |
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10 . |
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11 .PP |
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12 But making an assembly language a standard for shipping graphical |
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13 applications needs not to rhime with excess and abuse of a platform. |
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14 A more conventional approach would be standardising high-level API |
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15 and protocols, for which low-level drivers would be written. Instead, |
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16 Uxn standardises as low as the assembly language itself. |
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17 . |
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18 .PP |
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19 Yet, Uxn has nothing in common with Java: |
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20 . |
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21 .QP |
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22 Features were weighted against the relative difficulty they would |
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23 add for programmers implementing their own emulators. |
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24 . |
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25 .PP |
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26 Say welcome to this rabbit hole, inviting you with a fresh take on |
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27 making computers work for end-users. |
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28 . |
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29 .PP |
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30 Impressive acheivements were reached, such as portability of this |
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31 platform on things as small as a 32bit microcontroller: |
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32 . |
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33 .QP |
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34 Currently, there are ports (not all are complete) for GBA, Nintendo |
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35 DS, Playdate, DOS, PS Vita, Raspberry Pi Pico, Teletype, ESP32, |
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36 iOS, STM32, STM32, IBM PC, and many more. |
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37 . |
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38 .DS |
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39 https://100r.co/site/uxn.html |
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40 .DE |
