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Itβs funny but itβs not true
Well, not with 1. But collect a few million transistors,
Gosh, his character as 'himself' on Arrested Development was so damn good. It gets me every time. I think I'm way past due for another rewatch; thanks for reminding me! This was also a wonderful usage of the reference and gif! :)
100 percent believe he was poor irl. Taj p Henson still struggling.
Plot twist: it's actually a whole SoC packaged to look like a single transistor, with the pins being for +V, ground, and a 1-Wire data bus.
I don't know that such a thing exists, but these days I bet it could.
You're right. A lightbulb plugged into a potato is the real minimum system requirement.
But could it run doom?!
Not with that attitude!
Linux requires at least 32 bit machine words, and it always has. Linux was originally written for Intel 80386.
Linux requires a hardware MMU to support virtual memory. There are patches that can make a no-MMU kernel, but it drastically changes the experience to do so.
Well it is kinda cheating but Linux does "run" on a intel 4004 running a MIPS emulator
I think you could cook something like a 4-bit turing complete computer with around 100 transistors or so. And i guess turing completeness basically means "it will run with enough elbow grease" in this case
(if we exclude memory from the transistor count...)
There's an ESP32 with MMU running Linux now
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Smh