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russfinktoday at 3:36 PM3 repliesview on HN

TL;DR: the one entry implemented a subleq machine. Google it - it’s a One Instruction Set Computer (OISC). This made me smile. But it also raised a question: when were OISC’s first conceived? Would Apollo and computers of that era have benefitted from this insight?


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NooneAtAll3today at 3:42 PM

that entry won not because it "just" implemented subleq. Dude also made LLVM backend for it, drivers, set up full-on compiler and successfully did compile-and-run for tons of various programs

wzddtoday at 4:42 PM

Given the Mandelbrot program is 450k probably not.