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   alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 04:16:26 JST alcinnz

   You know? The more I toy with the concept of a string-centric processor... As opposed to a maths-centric one...

   The more I suspect that might be better suited to the (communications) tasks computers are actually used for! And the more I wish that's what I was using!

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     alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 04:48:56 JST alcinnz

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     • steeph 🎆 ٩(˘◡˘)۶

     @steeph If there's mutliple processes to communicate in that string-centric processor...

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     steeph 🎆 ٩(˘◡˘)۶ (steeph@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 04:48:58 JST steeph 🎆 ٩(˘◡˘)۶

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     @alcinnz I've read about Plan 9 from Bell Labs and similar OSs recently and various criticisms of character based inter-process communication. The same sort of criticism I've read about Unix pipes and Linux shell scripts before. I wonder whether a processor could be designed to be better suited for that sort of tasks. Probably not. In the end it's just copying bytes around.