Ask HN: Weirdest Computer Architecture?
bckrFriday, July 26, 2024
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My limited understanding of “the stack” is:
Physical substrate: Electronics
Computation theory: Turing machines
Smallest logical/physical parts: Transistors, Logic gates
Largest logical/physical parts: Chips
Lowest level programming: ARM/x64 instructions
First abstractions of programming: Assembly, C compiler
Software architecture: Unix kernel , Binary interfaces
User interface: Screen, Mouse, Keyboard, GNU
Does there exist a computer stack that changes all of these components?Or at the least uses electronics but substitutes something else for Turing machines and above.