May 2024 CACM: Nand to Tetris: Building a Modern Computer System from First Principles

Shimon Schocken discusses "Nand to Tetris: Building a Modern Computer System from First Principles," his Research Article in the May 2024 CACM.

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I wrote Tetris in 1 Month, that's because I Wrote it in C. Those Borgs Spent 2 Years Writing Tetris, because they had to Do it in Assembly.
EVEN THEN: it would Take Them Borgs, Half a Dozen Borgs, Over 6 Months in C.
The 286 executes C, without Having the Compiler, to Break the Code All the Way Down to X86 ASSEMBLY. The 386 executes C++, without Having the Compiler, to Break the Code All the Way Down to X86 ASSEMBLY.
They Actually Reverse Engineered the 286, Which Ran Windows.
Partially Reverse Engineered the 386. Made their Own Windows NT Like, Operating System.