> Thanks to Linus Torvalds, we not only have a consensus on architecture, but we've come pretty close to having a consensus on the input output mechanism by which programs communicate with their host machines, via the SYSCALL instruction. He accomplished that by sitting at home in a bathrobe sending emails to huge corporations, getting them to agree to devote their resources to creating something beautifully opposite to tragedy of the commons.
Great work, I love it. My smallest GoL implementation runs on the black-and-white LCD screen of my TI-89 Titanium (C cross-compiled to Motorola 68000 with an amended version of TIGCC for 64-bit Mac/Linux). Executable size is 5309 bytes. You cannot edit, it just eats the pixels it finds on the screen when it starts. But you can pan while it runs, pause, continue, and single-step. When it sees nothing is changing any more, it stops and outputs the number of generations computed.
> Thanks to Linus Torvalds, we not only have a consensus on architecture, but we've come pretty close to having a consensus on the input output mechanism by which programs communicate with their host machines, via the SYSCALL instruction. He accomplished that by sitting at home in a bathrobe sending emails to huge corporations, getting them to agree to devote their resources to creating something beautifully opposite to tragedy of the commons.
Could someone explain this to me?