Alasdair Allan
@aallan@mastodon.social
Scientist, author, hacker, maker, and journalist. Writes, speaks, and builds. An accidental privacy advocate. You can reach me at 📫 alasdair@babilim.co.uk. #MachineLearning #TinyML #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #LLM #EdgeComputing #Embedded #IoT #Mobile #Apple #BigData #Space #SmallSat #CubeSat
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In 1988 a company that made record turntables built its own CPU, because it hated its factory software. Linn's #Rekursiv had no visible addresses. Every object carried a 40-bit number, the OBJEKT chip checked type and bounds on every access in hardware, and there was no fixed instruction set: you loaded microcode to suit your language. RISC killed it in five years. All of it ships today. Hardware memory safety. GC in silicon. Persistent objects. Workload-shaped chips. https://negroniventurestudios.com/2026/07/18/the-computer-at-the-bottom-of-a-canal/
