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Don't forget the BASIC interpreter. The problem is that making any computer smaller than a big cabinet requires large scale integration microchips, notoriously
by AstralStorm 4y ago
Don't forget the BASIC interpreter.
The problem is that making any computer smaller than a big cabinet requires large scale integration microchips, notoriously hard to make, and potentially replace.
So it's going to be closer to PDP-7. You can do quite a lot with this sort of machine in an industrial setting.
- ifyoubuildit 4y agoWhat's the life expectancy of an integrated circuit? I was thinking make tons of them and the odds are that some percentage of them would still be functional long into the future, assuming you package them up nicely.
- int_19h 4y agoOP is suggesting premaking such devices in large enough quantities that you'd just rely on them for the foreseeable future to run that legacy code.