Project of the day (day 9) 2023, Thursday, August 31st

#uOffice : https://github.com/seanpm2001/uOffice

uOffice (ultimate Office) is an #opensource #office #suite. It was originally my first piece of proprietary software, which quickly went open source (it was never released as closed source luckily) it is an office suite that focuses on high #customization, high #compatibility (compatibility with as many formats and systems as possible) high speeds, and #skeuomorphic design.

It supports an #experimental office format known as #UDOC which supports documents up to 16 exbibytes (2^60 bytes) in size. This was made to address my problems with the 512 megabyte limit in the #ODT format, and to scale the technology towards the far future.

The software is #128bit, but can run on #64bit machines.

It is written in #Python. It was originally written in #Java and #VBScript where legacy use still remains. It is a highly #incomplete project.

Project of the day (day 8) 2023, Wednesday, August 30th

#UCALC : https://github.com/seanpm2001/UCALC/

UCALC is one of my first #Python projects, and is one of my most developed software pieces. It is functional, but currently only works via command line, and is missing a lot of planned features. It is a highly advanced #calculator, with dozens of modes, and support for very complex #mathematical jobs, such as #calculation beyond the computers #processor type (eg: it can do #128bit and higher calculations on a #64bit machine)

Recently, I learned about the new terms Ronnabyte and Quettabyte (along with the smaller units deca (10) and hecto (100) which I didn't add in originally) and I am hoping to update the calculator (and 2 other projects) to include these new units in the near future.

UCALC was originally tested on #Windows 10, but can work on any computer that has a functional Python interpreter. I hope to make it more functional, and eventually add a functional GUI.

@ariadne I hope #128bit #RISCV will fix that...

@b0rk Personally, I want a native #128bit architecture that doesn't do anything but 128bit...

@eniko There is no #128bit #ix86 #CPU, it's not even specified.

AFAIK only #RISCV has an #ISA for 128bit and even that is still in #draft and not finalized with 0 #ASIC's produced that implement it.