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minus-squaretallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up51·21 days ago electricity (optional) I don’t think that anyone’s yet booted a Linux kernel on a purely-mechanical computer yet.
minus-squarepotoo22@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up37·edit-221 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-up21·21 days agoTechnically possible. How large would such a machine be though…
minus-squareHonytawk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·21 days agoSince you need 16 billion crabs to run Doom, I suspect easier than you think
minus-squarebonn2@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·21 days agoOK now we need to run the math, how many crabs to boot a Linux terminal
minus-squarePlexSheep@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up5·19 days 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-squareWanderingThoughts@europe.publinkfedilinkarrow-up6·21 days agoMaybe Linux is the first to run on optical processors?
I don’t think that anyone’s yet booted a Linux kernel on a purely-mechanical computer yet.
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…
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?
Maybe Linux is the first to run on optical processors?