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[nickpsecurity]

Well, that's pretty humble of you. :)

I advocated for the term to only be used by folks that can build their own computer, language, OS, and apps. Look up Chuck Moore and Niklaus Wirth for examples focusing on simplicity. For full-stack architect w/ team building it, look up Bob Barton of Burrough B5000. I cant remember if early folks writing Lisp interpreters built the CPU's, too. I know Burger did for a Scheme CPU, though.

[hcs → nickpsecurity]

Not quite down to the hardware level, but the VPRI STEPS project had that kind of thing in mind, see (PDF): http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf

The focus was on expressive power more than simplicity, though.