Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 19:02:34 -0700 From: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> To: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpn@neutralgood.org> Cc: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NodeJS on FreeBSD Message-ID: <2b9e58f6-edf4-24b5-9b7c-bb2a7e28d994@nomadlogic.org> In-Reply-To: <20200324013527.GA5662@neutralgood.org> References: <20200321044044.3p3jjdzedd3nkkuq@sea-ll-10936> <6742b7b7-67fc-a8d1-c7d4-c259f3c41f3c@nomadlogic.org> <20200323201527.yeae67icceifel6d@sea-ll-10936> <CAGBxaXmh3dsh6eyLobaYUEH1bdSnUGAd1RpPZb%2Bg_zqjAQkXKA@mail.gmail.com> <20200323222055.d785bbabbeb613661d30ca80@sohara.org> <75a140b8-b1bb-6f0f-8c82-f1919b94d599@nomadlogic.org> <20200324013527.GA5662@neutralgood.org>
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On 3/23/20 6:35 PM, Kevin P. Neal wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 03:30:48PM -0700, Pete Wright wrote: >> >> On 3/23/20 3:20 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >>> On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 17:55:23 -0400 >>> Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> IMO JS is not even fully Turing complete! >>> It's as Turing complete as any language (limited by resources). >>> There's even a PC emulator that can boot Linux written in JavaScript which >>> is a pretty good demonstration of completeness. >>> >> not to extend this bikeshed any more but don't forget netbsd's did something >> similar in 2012 or so :) >> >> https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/kernel_drivers_compiled_to_javascript > That's so ... NetBSD. Anyone remember the ARM board they once built into > a toaster? Because of course a toaster needs to run NetBSD. That would have > been, hmmm, pre-2004. > > Honestly, it's all in good fun. i do! i remember helping man the netbsd table at one of the early Socal Linux Expo's and it was a toss up between people checking that out and the amiga running netbsd. it most certainly was all in good fun :^) -p -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA
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