Sort of... But it's very different than a computer, it's called a Programmable Logic Controller and it's used in industrial applications. Best game I've ever seen one run was Doom.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

The closest is the Convergent NGEN, but the one more people may be familiar with would be the TI 99/4a sidecar system.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This thing could probably be the future of computers, if RISC-based (Army, RISC-V) cluster computing, using multiple SoM (system on module) gains its popularity. But for that, first we'll probably need some sort of specialised OS, perhaps something like Plan9 to grow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Plan9 is sleeping. It works great and is actively developed, but I think it will remain a research OS. People/companies don't want to buy a really effective solution they want a pinky promise from another company. We'll eventually get embed windows on risc machines and it'll suck.

Cluster computers will still be discrete tho. OP is aesthetic and cool. future computers will be piles of servers and silly iot devices and silly smartphones