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<oriansj>aggi: gigatron's bootstrap is worse than any other architecture (literally everything is just a firmware blob) If you wanted a simple architecture for bootstrapping Ben Eater's 8bit system isn't bad but one would want to extend it in a couple directions. <oriansj>and possibly replace the microcode eprom with hardwired logic <fossy>stikonas, Googulator: should we run shellcheck on steps/*/*.sh? <aggi>oriansj: to my understanding gigatron ttl got no bootstrap on the software side <aggi>it's firmware rom was written in assembly, which i had not seen disassembly with comment sections for yet <aggi>the gigatron control language is documented however <matrix_bridge><Andrius Štikonas> And shellcheck will complain a lot with suggestions about newer feature <matrix_bridge><Andrius Štikonas> Well, if you disable those, maybe it could work <aggi>i got confused, GNU texinfo isn't an equivalent to TeX, it can however interoperate with TeX for maths typesetting; and GNU texinfo easily compiled with tinycc <aggi>and this is what pandoc/haskell would be needed for, to convert TeX to texinfo, for example, sigh <aggi>and any common TeX implementation itself could not be salvaged for a no-c++/tinycc profile yet <aggi>there's two scenarios, such as writing any document including math glyphs in texinfo format... don't know if GNU texinfo fully covers this for elaborate mathematical expression <aggi>another scenario would be, some TeX documents arriving to convert those into texinfo first (because i haven't got a tex implementation ready) <aggi>so, haskell, that was prominently discussed recently <aggi>at least i got pdf/ps support salvaged with tinycc for rendering into framebuffer (which wasn't trivial), texinfo is available too <aggi>i didn't bother with pandoc/haskell, and i think a tex 2 texinfo conversion tool fitting into a no-c++ profile is desireable <aggi>i am not prepared to take the haskell route, and will trust it's confirmed by bootstrappable