It would be cool if they could be daisy-chained, so you can have a hardware implementation of |

mpweiher 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The return of the Transputer.

Put a Transputer in a Lego brick. Not "like a Lego brick", an actual Lego brick. Turn the notches into connectors for the serial link.

Plug'n'play.

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benterix a day ago | parent | prev [-]

The next logical step would be to have a separate card for each Unix utility.

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QuantumNomad_ a day ago | parent | next [-]

And a patch panel and a bunch of patch cables that you plug in and out to construct your pipelines.

And eventually hire people whose job it is to patch pipelines on demand for everyone in the office.

“Hey Jim, I’m gonna output the systemd logs of nginx on line five, can you assemble a grep pipeline for me to match all HTTP 500 status codes from /api/cart POST request log lines? Connect the filtered output to Tim’s desk, line 7. He’s there now, we are trying to figure something out.”

“Sure thing Bob, give me a moment.”

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bartread a day ago | parent | next [-]

It’s OK: you can just tell us you have a financially and relationally crippling Eurorack addiction. You’re amongst friends here.

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serbuvlad 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm sure this is how some bellheads (in the phone tradition, not in the Unix tradition) envisioned computing.

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justsid 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Now if that isn’t a great Zachlike game mechanic. Playing as the patch pipeline builder.

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kgwgk a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Patching cables is so primitive... Use punched cards to define the connection patterns or something!

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xigoi 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Somehow we’ve reinvented punch cards, but worse.

	▲	mkesper 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It was a companion of punchcards, the tabulating machine. Programming by wires. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulating_machine#Selected_mo...

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nxobject 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Bring back IBM accounting machine plugboards!

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formerly_proven 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Transputerpunk.

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Retro_Dev 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I cannot wait for my cowsay coprocessor.

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Scarblac 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And a datacenter for Emacs.