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It would fit inside the MERCIA relay computer's ROM. http://www.relaiscomputer.nl/index.php/memory http://www.relaiscomputer.nl/index.php/memory It could comfo
by roywiggins 7y ago
It would fit inside the MERCIA relay computer's ROM. http://www.relaiscomputer.nl/index.php/memory http://www.relaiscomputer.nl/index.php/memory
It could comfortably fit inside the Apollo lander computer's RAM three times over.
You can easily build a ROM this big in Minecraft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4TXjhZLHpw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4TXjhZLHpw
You could encode it into a relatively short Twitter thread https://qntm.org/twitcodings https://qntm.org/twitcodings
- logicallee 7y agobut none of these come close to a real world use case. like, where does this limbo bar setting come from? who chose 15k and why?
- roywiggins 7y agoCode golf is its own reward? https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/ https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/
- sterlind 7y agoIf you were truly paranoid about the Ken Thompson hack, and couldn't trust any hardware or software, you might choose to breadboard a primitive computer out of raw NAND gates. Your memory in such a scenario would be extremely limited... you'd be hand-crafting each bit, and toggling in instructions by hand or by punched card. Code golf would be rather necessary.
- taneq 7y agoI'd imagine "small as possible" is a core goal for anything for which you might have to type the object code in by hand.