anybody done this before?

http://www.popularmechanics.com/tech...adgets/4339778

Turn a netbook into a tablet I'm going to try it sometime

[maks]

why would you when you can get a tablet for like $150

cause i don't want an android tablet and would like decent storage space

[maks]

give it a year

http://www.extremetech.com/computing...erything-again

[sex with dead people]

How many gigs of gay porn do you have currently?

approx. 80gb

give it a year

http://www.extremetech.com/computing...erything-again

Yeah and there is a more recent article saying so long $200 windows tablets but who knows maybe they still will i hope so cause that is what I want and when I think of something that should be made ti usually comes out a year later

approx. 80gb

well why keep it to oyurself? Spread the wealth. my niggah.

[maks]

Yeah and there is a more recent article saying so long $200 windows tablets but who knows maybe they still will i hope so cause that is what I want and when I think of something that should be made ti usually comes out a year later

make sure you buy the x86 version, apparently windows 8 for ARM works exactly the same as x86 windows 8 except you can only install software via microsoft's app store. pretty gay if you ask me.

[blumpkin blownuts]

windows was microcoded for x86 anyway. it's not really a windows kernel if it's running on arm, it's an asm-level virtual machine, soaking up anywhere from 4-10x as many cycles to run the same fucking program compared to in its native architecture. utterly wasteful, useless - except for tutelage, i suppose.
I speculate though. I would be gobsmacked to learn microsoft's engineers built an ARM version of "windows 8" (just call it windows-on-apple already) from scratch

[maks]

It probably shares a lot of code with wimo, I dunno windows 8 is a piece of shit I haven't looked that far into it.

windows was microcoded for x86 anyway. it's not really a windows kernel if it's running on arm, it's an asm-level virtual machine, soaking up anywhere from 4-10x as many cycles to run the same fucking program compared to in its native architecture. utterly wasteful, useless - except for tutelage, i suppose.
I speculate though. I would be gobsmacked to learn microsoft's engineers built an ARM version of "windows 8" (just call it windows-on-apple already) from scratch

from what i've read windows RT was built almost entirely from scratch

[jon]

windows was microcoded for x86 anyway. it's not really a windows kernel if it's running on arm, it's an asm-level virtual machine, soaking up anywhere from 4-10x as many cycles to run the same fucking program compared to in its native architecture. utterly wasteful, useless - except for tutelage, i suppose.
I speculate though. I would be gobsmacked to learn microsoft's engineers built an ARM version of "windows 8" (just call it windows-on-apple already) from scratch

none of this makes any sense

[elezzzark]

none of this makes any sense

Hey Mr. Jon, teach me how to code C

[jon]

pro tip except for like one page of source code, there is no reason whatsoever to use an assembly language to write an operating system

[jon]

hey elezark just do what i did and start using it

[elezzzark]

Does it blow my computer up if i start to compile and run?

[jon]

:|

[elezzzark]

If is true, i will be damned

[jon]

yawn

[elezzzark]

I want a tablet running windows xp tyvm

[maks]

I want a tablet running windows xp tyvm

they have existed for years, there was even a tablet edition of XP. It's not going to be as thin or have the battery life of a modern device though, I don't even think you can get one with multitouch.

if i do this in a few months i will let you guys know how awesome it is and i am for making it

[maks]

Good luck.

[sex with dead people]

if i do this in a few months i will let you guys know how awesome it is and i am for making it

Sounds like an idea stevey would come up with. Don't do it.

[blumpkin blownuts]

pro tip except for like one page of source code, there is no reason whatsoever to use an assembly language to write an operating system

Not for the whole thing, mainly just its assembler.
That's used to break down HLL's into chunks of assembly code, used by the computer at the machine level to control/compute data.
I'd also expect it to be kinda difficult to memory-map and table addresses for bus components like I/O, DMA etc without an assebler.
Then again, maybe there's some bloated one-size-fits-most HLL library that can directly access all memory & memory-mapped devices and bypass the assembly layer completely; in the process soaking up alot of unnecessary clock cycles to run the same program. You'll notice this particularly when trying to "port" user software from one architecture to another without actually rebuilding it from the machine level, for a completely alien instruction set.

It happens all the time.

If old console games were all written assembly (and they virtually all were, up to the mid 90s) they would've looked like dogshit on SNES compared to megadrive version, or vice versa, and that hasn't really changed despite that modern video games are impractical to code in asm. So now, even new games generally look/play best on 1 of the three leading game consoles, depending on how well the HLL they used to program the game compiles and assembles on those platforms.

[maks]

fyi bob

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5...-written-inasm

[jon]

you just said a bunch of shit and then said "it happens all the time" to someone whose job it was to write a modern bootloader and real time operating system for the blackfin 548

so, no