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eslaught: Post is new but the original PDF is from 2025:Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42959775

RajT88: butwhy.gif

tombert: Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.

cyanydeez: Can we use it as an AI sandbox!

nialv7: seems like an account reposting stuff to get attention to advertise his AI stuff.

karel-3d: This is a low effort blogspam. (Twitterspam?)

matthewsinclair: And here's the PDF: https://linux.doompdf.dev/linux.pdf

ge96: Is there a writeup somewhere on how it works?Is it turing complete, runs actual linux binary through wasm or somethingedit: went to tweet RISC-V emulator in PDF

robinsonb5: Just like Doom-in-a-PDF, this is in equal measure incredibly impressive and utterly horrifying that it's possible.

anthk: PostSscript files came from the same company in the 80's -Adobe- and with GhostScript and zmachine.ps you can play Zork I-III, Calypso, Tristam Island and the rest of propietary Infocom text adventures on it with ease.What zmachine.ps does is to emulate the ZMachine VM in PostScript and display the output to stdout/console.And if it werent for the PS stack limitations for sure you could emulate Linux under Risc-V.Heck, you can emulate old RISC Linux' syscalls (enough to run static binaries) in Perl without ever calling to C bindings, not even once.