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I wouldn't exactly call it click-bait. The crux of both the article and the accomplishment is writing an 32-bits ARM emulator that works on an 8-bit machine.

• teddyh 10y ago
  Rhetorical question: If writing the emulator was the “crux”, then why doesn’t the headline mention it? Why isn’t the whole article about it? I would certainly have upvoted and whole-heartedly lauded a story entitled “An 32-bit ARM emulator for an 8-bit CPU”. Instead, they used the headline and article content to heavily imply to actually have ported Linux to an 8-bit processor. It’s not until into about half the article that they reveal the emulation bit. Therefore, click bait, pure and simple.
  • VLM 10y ago
    There is some wonderousness that they completed the emulation enough to run something complicated like linux. Its very easy to use something limited, say a HP48 in RPN mode and some arrays as "memory" and variables as registers to implement a couple opcodes of say a 68hc11. I did that around '93 or so when the 'hc11 was contemporary (its ancient history now, but it was kind of a 6809-like microcontroller with pretty good specs for the era) On the other hand its hard to get a complete emulator working of everything, or at least close enough to everything to boot a major software project on top of it. Sort of like implement a system/360 emulator that only does opcode ADD, well, ok cool, but when you can boot MVS/360 thats a whole nother level of wow.
    • teddyh 10y ago
      Sure it’s a cool emulator. Which is why they should have led with that. But they implied they did something else and waited until half the article to even mention the emulator.