2017-07-31 – Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7
plumeria, Sukhothai, Thailand
🎵 (youtube) Atenna «Zorba the Greek»
despite having a limited knowledge, I find parallel, concurrent, and distributed systems fascinating – most likely going back to a Byte magazine article on the Atari Transputer and then the fad for a while of Beowulf clusters – currently, one of the most well known distributed systems is the BEAM virtual machine (the underlying system for Erlang, Elixir, Gleam, and a few other programming languages)
in contrast, I’ve also been distracted by the Varvara/Uxn/Uxntal ecosystem – a call-back to the days of 8-bit computing and limited resources – and yet people created (and are still creating) amazing pieces of software on these retro systems – so what happens when you add parallelism to Uxn? – our first networking protocols (as well as TCP and IP) all grew out of those early days, running on limited systems – they are not the result of modern tech staks, but are the bedrock of those tech stacks – but lo-and-behold, someone’s already come up with that idea
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