> Why is it newsworthy if a programer gets a program running on a general purpose computer? In some sense, a computer with nearly entirely undocumented hardwar

> Why is it newsworthy if a programer gets a program running on a general purpose computer? In some sense, a computer with nearly entirely undocumented hardware isn't 'general purpose'. This effort is literally the process of taking a non-general purpose computer and turning it into a general purpose computer, and the news is that a major milestone has been reached.