• tal@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    electricity (optional)

    I don’t think that anyone’s yet booted a Linux kernel on a purely-mechanical computer yet.

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      2 months ago

      If you make a redstone PC and don’t consider the requirements to run Minecraft… Probably (in-world it wouldn’t be using electricity)

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        2 months ago

        It wouldn’t need to be super large necessarily. It could just be very very slow.

        Theoretically, an immortal person with many many stones that follows instructions very clearly could “emulate” (be) a computer, right?