Author Topic: Changing the name AGAIN  (Read 4423 times)

johnsa

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Changing the name AGAIN
« on: May 21, 2017, 04:41:29 AM »
We've decided to change it from HASM to UASM (Unified Assembler).

The main reason is that HASM is the name of a terrorist organization which we're DEFINITELY not affiliated with, and they take up all the Google rank!

Sites/packages/Git/documents are all updated to reflect this change, otherwise all is the same.

Thanks!
John

Vortex

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Re: Changing the name AGAIN
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2017, 05:28:58 AM »
Hi John,

Checking your site, the name of the assembler is yet Hasm. I guess the reflection of the changes will take some time.

Here are some tests :
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C:\>wget http://www.terraspace.co.uk/hasm233_x86.zip
--2017-05-20 http://www.terraspace.co.uk/hasm233_x86.zip
Resolving www.terraspace.co.uk (www.terraspace.co.uk)... 91.238.162.238
Connecting to www.terraspace.co.uk (www.terraspace.co.uk)|91.238.162.238|:80...
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 837525 (818K) [application/zip]
Saving to: 'hasm233_x86.zip'

hasm233_x86.zip     100%[===================>] 817.90K   787KB/s    in 1.0s

C:\>wget http://www.terraspace.co.uk/uasm233_x86.zip
--2017-05-20 http://www.terraspace.co.uk/uasm233_x86.zip
Resolving www.terraspace.co.uk (www.terraspace.co.uk)... 91.238.162.238
Connecting to www.terraspace.co.uk (www.terraspace.co.uk)|91.238.162.238|:80...
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 837275 (818K) [application/zip]
Saving to: 'uasm233_x86.zip'

uasm233_x86.zip     100%[===================>] 817.65K   778KB/s    in 1.1s

habran

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Re: Changing the name AGAIN
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2017, 06:00:19 AM »
Hi Vortex,
Johnsa has forgotten to change the link to UASM page here on forum, this is the proper link: http://www.terraspace.co.uk/uasm.html
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Vortex

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Re: Changing the name AGAIN
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2017, 06:48:02 AM »
Hi Habran,

Thanks, I can access the new site. :t

johnsa

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Re: Changing the name AGAIN
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2017, 07:55:19 AM »
Update links on my signature :)

Knew I'd miss a change somewhere!

LordAdef

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Re: Changing the name AGAIN
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2017, 04:37:35 PM »
I still like the old one rather than any suggested ones. Before you had something unique in the name, now it's common like dozen of others. No offense intended at all by saying this (please don't get me wrong). it's solely my personal feeling.

jj2007

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Re: Changing the name AGAIN
« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2017, 04:45:03 PM »
I can echo that...

Won't be easy to find a good alternative name. I got used to it :bgrin:

Pro:      HJWasm cares for Habran, John, Japheth and the Watcom gang :biggrin:
Contra: The name is not sexy enough for Oprah's and Letterman's shows :(

Besides, googling "HJWasm" (with quotes) will definitely show you valid hits only. Try the same for UASM...

LiaoMi

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Re: Changing the name AGAIN
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2017, 12:04:18 AM »
Hi,

look at how NSA poetically calls its own programs  :biggrin: In universities, professors also like to call their programming languages from the poetic side  :P