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[–] 84 points 3 days ago (12 children)

It’s funny but it’s not true

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  • [–] 99 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Well, not with 1. But collect a few million transistors,

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  • [–] 14 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    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! :)

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  • [–] 43 points 3 days ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago*

    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...)

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