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murks
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m0xEE

@murks @safiuddinkhan Do you have proper hardware for that? 😄
24 Jul 2022 at 16:47 | Open on social.librem.one
murks

@m0xee @safiuddinkhan That sure looks nice, I would much prefer wooden hardware over plastic.

Unfortunately that does not make it an analog computer that can run UNIX. Makes we wonder whether there is one.

24 Jul 2022 at 16:49 | Open on social.tchncs.de
m0xEE

@murks Like vacuum tube based?
I always wondered if any physical object can be considered truly digital. We can't have ones and zeroes in real world, we just consider e.g. voltage above certain level one and below that a zero, but it's not really discrete, there is noise, it fluctuates, we just don't care about that. That is why we have to use certain techniques like checksumming to make sure the information was transfered correctly from physical media.
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24 Jul 2022 at 17:07 | Open on social.librem.one
murks

@m0xee @safiuddinkhan You are of course right about the abstractions that happens. I guess what I had in mind was UNIX running on a computer that does not do this discretion step.

24 Jul 2022 at 17:48 | Open on social.tchncs.de
GNU/neko :cursed_verified::makemeneko:
@m0xee @murks @safiuddinkhan things built with vacuum tubes are still digital. intentional discretization may be imperfect but it's an abstraction nonetheless. op amps are an example of analog
24 Jul 2022 at 18:17 | Open on bae.st
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