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Could you explain why the 8086 is "non-bootstrappable silicon" please? Or what you mean by "bootstrap the actual computational substrate"? Thanks.
by bosco_tm 6y ago
Could you explain why the 8086 is "non-bootstrappable silicon" please? Or what you mean by "bootstrap the actual computational substrate"? Thanks.
- pmiller2 6y agoI think those are both referring to the fact that without some very sophisticated manufacturing processes and equipment, it's not possible to build an 8086 to begin with. Once we're at a point of societal collapse, we would, presumably, need to begin re-climbing the tech tree at a lower level and work ourselves up to 8086s again. So, we would need to start with computers we could actually build in order to get there.