Install tenyr with Homebrew

Project links

• Homepage
• Repository

Commands and aliases

• tas
• tld
• tsim

Project history

The GitHub repository was created in December 2011 and the project developed as a compact educational and experimental architecture. Its README emphasizes simplicity of design and implementation, portability across desktop platforms and JavaScript via emscripten, and a Verilog definition demonstrated on Xilinx Spartan6 FPGAs.

Adoption history

tenyr remained a niche systems and architecture project rather than a mainstream runtime. Homebrew packaging made its command-line tools, including `tas`, `tld`, and `tsim`, available to macOS package users interested in assemblers, simulators, and small CPU designs.

How it is used

Users assemble tenyr assembly with `tas`, link objects with `tld`, and run programs in `tsim`. The README points to examples such as Conway's Game of Life, a snake screensaver, and a recursive Fibonacci generator, plus FPGA-oriented Verilog hardware.

Why package nerds care

For package nerds, tenyr is interesting as a full tiny computing stack delivered through ordinary package tooling: ISA documentation, assembler, linker, simulator, standard library, examples, and hardware descriptions. It represents the kind of small but complete architecture project that package managers preserve for experimentation.

Timeline

• 2011-12-10: GitHub repository created.
• 2015-08-06: v0.9.2 release published with initial Wishbone B3 bus support.
• 2017-05-04: v0.9.4 changelog entry added first-class emscripten build support.
• 2021-01-01: v0.9.8 changelog recorded GitHub Actions CI and many portability cleanups.
• 2021-09-01: v0.9.9 changelog recorded macOS Big Sur build work and ULX3S/Yosys flow changes.

Related projects

• The README and changelog relate tenyr to emscripten, Verilog FPGA flows, Wishbone, Xilinx Spartan6, ULX3S, Yosys, and SDL/VGA simulation work.

Sources

• https://api.github.com/repos/kulp/tenyr
• https://api.github.com/repos/kulp/tenyr/releases
• https://github.com/kulp/tenyr#readme
• https://github.com/kulp/tenyr/blob/develop/Changelog.md
• source_facts.package-manager