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Assembly Nights (2021)

Season Two Over the last three months, I’ve developed an unusual little nighttime routine: after reading bedtime stories to the kids, I hop into bed and instead of reaching for a fiction book, I’m turning on my 14-year old Asus eeePC 701 (wikipedia.org) miniature laptop and writing x86 assembly language. This is turning out to be an insanely good use of my time… My faithful eeePC 701 is a 32 bit Celeron "netbook" mini-laptop from 2007 currently running Alpine Linux and is seen here editing my very early work-in-progress NASM port of "JonesForth".

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