Nanoraptor3d ago

Imagine a computer like a PDP-11 but with more than 3 billion SP4T switches. The switches are various combinations of 'magic' and 'more magic'

the authors of the code are dead, there are no comments except for old code, and sometimes the comments run anyway

and it's wet

this is biology.

Show threadPseudo Nym3d ago

@NanoRaptor

It all runs on about a 100 watt power supply, derived from just about what ever form of carbon-hydrogen-oxygen-nitrogen is handy.

If it crashes, it crashes hard, and there are no backups, but the disk defrag and other system maintenance tasks run daily and are surprisingly resilient.

Show threadQ.H. Stone
@pseudonym @NanoRaptor Unfortunately the archiving system uses lossy compression.
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