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Apparently it’s high-level only, i.e. no underlying machine instruction set or addressable memory.
by layer8 5mo ago
Apparently it’s high-level only, i.e. no underlying machine instruction set or addressable memory.
- Rohansi 5mo agoThat's how most of these fantasy machines are. Most people are only going to want to use a high-level language so it makes more sense this way.
- joshmarinacci 5mo agoTrue , but if it had a real ISA underneath then we could write custom emulators for them.
- rm445 5mo agoSo... It's an interpreter (together with a virtual filesystem and some utilities) packaged into a program with a graphical display window? Still good for lots of interesting uses, I suppose, but surprising. Since it's introduced as a "virtual computer", I thought underneath the hood it would be emulating a machine. Then people, if they wanted, could tinker a level deeper than the scripting language, write an assembler etc.