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If a toaster can run on Linux, so can a calculator. (NetBSD used to have that slogan with regards to toasters. I have not followed it for several years, so I
by shevy-java 2mo ago
If a toaster can run on Linux,
so can a calculator.
(NetBSD used to have that slogan with regards to toasters. I have not followed it for several years, so I don't know which operating system dominates toasters nowadays.)
- jagged-chisel 2mo agoA toaster can run Linux. Linux can run on a toaster.
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- ButlerianJihad 2mo agoThere was not a "slogan" but an inside joke, and you've reversed the sense of said joke. In response to the joke about BSD running on a toaster, some joker created and documented a "toaster running BSD" which was accomplished by bypassing the toaster circuits and adding a motherboard with CPU, memory, storage and I/O. Now those all make for good jokes, but it does not mean that toaster hardware is POSIX-ready, any more than a Macintosh SE is suitable as an aquarium. But let us never forget that the Video Toaster runs with Amiga or Windows! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster