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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish51•2 months ago electricity (optional) I don’t think that anyone’s yet booted a Linux kernel on a purely-mechanical computer yet.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•2 months agoMaybe Linux is the first to run on optical processors?
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)linkfedilinkEnglish21•2 months agoTechnically possible. How large would such a machine be though…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish22•2 months agoSince you need 16 billion crabs to run Doom, I suspect easier than you think
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•2 months agoOK now we need to run the math, how many crabs to boot a Linux terminal
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•2 months 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink37•edit-22 months agoIf you make a redstone PC and don’t consider the requirements to run Minecraft… Probably (in-world it wouldn’t be using electricity)
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?
Technically possible. How large would such a machine be though…
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
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?
If you make a redstone PC and don’t consider the requirements to run Minecraft… Probably (in-world it wouldn’t be using electricity)