@tubetime I had just finished reading that when I opened mastodon to see your message first in my feed :blobaww:

It's very impressive, I remember back when I found Ryo Mukai's write up of their Intel 8080 emulator running on a 4004 (https://github.com/ryomuk/emu8080on4004) I wondered if it were possible to emulate something that could run a modern operating system and Dmitry answered that question in the most thorough way possible :amaze:

@tubetime oh of course it's Dmitry

@tubetime I am still sad his signature rubbed off my DC32 badge.

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I love how the circuits are so easy to read on older computers.

@tubetime what an absolute gem of a blogpost, I will finish reading it later today, but I had no idea of just how limited the 4004 was, and I am even more amazed this project is even a thing

@tubetime this is awesome! I've always wanted to build a 4004-based computer, but the design and support chipset are so heckin' different and odd compared to stuff like the Z80 that it breaks my brain x.x o1 and o2 clock signals, what the heck are those!!!

@tubetime crazy, an operating system that started off as an OS designed to use the then cutting edge features of the i386...

@tubetime Seeing things like this always gives me chills (massive congrats to them!)... the sheer amount of "stuff" that has to happen for a single line of console output in modern systems is significant, but doing just that "tiny" bit of work on older / slower / smaller equipment is an impressive feat by itself, let alone everything else! 🤓

@tubetime It's equally useless as it is awesome. Seeing it take minutes to display each character and hours to run uptime had me grinning. I loved it.

@tubetime damn. I've read through the entire documentation and I'm thoroughly impressed.

I'm also tempted to build one if I can find a 4040 or a 4004 for a good price!

@tubetime wow!!!!

@tubetime I know people like to boot Linux on virtually everything, but geez this must be pain, lol.

@tubetime had it emulate a 486?