@riley I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux is in fact, Shoe/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, shoe plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning shoe system made useful by shoe laces, non-slip sole and vital system stitching comprising footwear as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run in a modified version of the shoe system every day, without realizing it.
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Amin Girasol
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There seems to be a fondness in western Serbia for naming shops after historical network operating systems. -
There seems to be a fondness in western Serbia for naming shops after historical network operating systems.There seems to be a fondness in western Serbia for naming shops after historical network operating systems.
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This toot https://fosstodon.org/@interlisp/115122557055111398 led me via a reference to Edmund C.This toot https://fosstodon.org/@interlisp/115122557055111398 led me via a reference to Edmund C. Berkeley (as coauthor with L. Peter Deutsch of "The LISP Implementation for the PDP-1 Computer", March 1964 and author of "Giant Brains, or Machines that Think", 1949) to the 1950 2-bit relay computer Simon and then to Harry Porter's Relay Computer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsp2JntuZ3c
By eighteen minutes in, if you can follow along, you'll understand how machine instructions (opcodes) work.
I've never seen such a succinct explanation of a computer.
#computerarchitecture #relaylogic #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing