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Meanwhile, somebody put 8192 arm cores on a chip and ran a risc-v emulator on top of that which emulated a 6502 which then emulated a 288 core xeon and it used
by bigbuppo 8mo ago
Meanwhile, somebody put 8192 arm cores on a chip and ran a risc-v emulator on top of that which emulated a 6502 which then emulated a 288 core xeon and it used 0.01% of the power and outperformed the Intel chip in every other metric 10:1, probably.
- jvanderbot 8mo agoYou know, a link would be great for this comment.
- CoastalCoder 8mo agoToo risky.
- CamperBob2 8mo agohttps://theonion.com https://theonion.com, probably
- bigbuppo 8mo agoAh, nice to see a fellow lover of the finest news publication on the planet.
- throwaway11456 8mo agoWell Linux was booted on an Intel 4004, emulating a MIPS R3000. Looks like it booted in 4.76 days. I don't believe this article was AI fabricated. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/hacker-boots-linux-on-intels-first-ever-cpu/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/hacker-boots-linux-o...
- DetroitThrow 8mo agoSomehow, that still doesn't sound real, but it looks like it is. Wow. Though that one was written by their recently fired hallucination writer.
- ilaksh 8mo agoOnly slightly related, but six years ago I was able to run 400 ZX Spectrum (Z80) emulator instances simultaneously on an AWS graphics workstation. https://youtu.be/BjeVzEQW4C8?si=0I7UGU0Xz5WUT4ek https://youtu.be/BjeVzEQW4C8?si=0I7UGU0Xz5WUT4ek
- bigbuppo 8mo agoI remember that. Neat stuff.