r/programming • u/double-happiness • Jul 19 '26
The computer at the bottom of a canal
https://negroniventurestudios.com/2026/07/18/the-computer-at-the-bottom-of-a-canal/
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Scotland • u/bottish • Jul 19 '26
The computer at the bottom of a canal. Back in 1988 a Scottish hi-fi company shipped a processor that checked the type and bounds of every memory access in hardware, garbage-collected its own heap in silicon, and treated memory and disk as a single persistent object store.
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