'Collapse OS' Is an Open Source Operating System for the Post-Apocalypse

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> Collapse OS on a Z80 CPU

I think several cockroaches could have come up with a better decision to choose a CPU and OS that will survive in a post-apocalyptic world.

IBM ThinkPad running GNU/Hurd.

So the supply chain collapses before 2030...that means that everything post-Z80 vanishes in a puff of smoke? Why stop there, there are still (small-ish) warehouses full of vacuum tubes - we need schematics and software for computers built out of them.

The argument was a silly one - the z80 doesn't have a lot of transistors and post apocalypse we could theoretically make them again faster than modern computers.

Also this project isn't terribly ambitious in what it considers a usable system either. Cp/m is almost a better choice

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