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minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days ago electricity (optional) I don’t think that anyone’s yet booted a Linux kernel on a purely-mechanical computer yet.
minus-squareWanderingThoughts@europe.publinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoMaybe Linux is the first to run on optical processors?
minus-squarepotoo22@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 days agoIf you make a redstone PC and don’t consider the requirements to run Minecraft… Probably (in-world it wouldn’t be using electricity)
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoTechnically possible. How large would such a machine be though…
minus-squarePlexSheep@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 hours agoIt wouldn’t need to be super large necessarily. It could just be very very slow. Theoretically, an immortal person with many many stones that follows instructions very clearly could “emulate” (be) a computer, right?
minus-squareHonytawk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoSince you need 16 billion crabs to run Doom, I suspect easier than you think
minus-squarebonn2@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoOK now we need to run the math, how many crabs to boot a Linux terminal
I don’t think that anyone’s yet booted a Linux kernel on a purely-mechanical computer yet.
Maybe Linux is the first to run on optical processors?
If you make a redstone PC and don’t consider the requirements to run Minecraft… Probably (in-world it wouldn’t be using electricity)
Technically possible. How large would such a machine be though…
It wouldn’t need to be super large necessarily. It could just be very very slow.
Theoretically, an immortal person with many many stones that follows instructions very clearly could “emulate” (be) a computer, right?
Since you need 16 billion crabs to run Doom, I suspect easier than you think
OK now we need to run the math, how many crabs to boot a Linux terminal