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Author: neau <neau@web>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:23:36 +0200
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-A **bedrock platform** is a [[hardware]] platform or a simple [[virtual machine]] that can be expected to remain compatible with any [[software]] that has ever been written for it. Bedrock platforms can be used to prevent [[software rot]].
+A **bedrock platform** is a [[hardware]] platform or a universal [[virtual machine]] that can be expected to remain compatible with any [[software]] that has ever been written for it. Bedrock platforms can be used to prevent [[software rot]].
Some possible criteria for bedrock hardware:
-* The hardware has been popular and commonly available at some point of history (and preferrably remains that way).
+* The hardware has been popular and commonly available at some point of history (and preferably remains that way).
* Every detail of the hardware is well-known and fully documented. (Having a 100% compatible open-source emulator can be considered full documentation)
* There have been several independent manufacturers for each component.
* Multiple emulators for the platform are commonly available for many different environments.
@@ -20,10 +20,6 @@ Candidates for bedrock hardware:
For virtual bedrock hardware, the main criterion is that the specification is simple enough that it can be implemented in a small effort for commonly available computers, and that the specification is unambiguous and frozen.
-Candidates for virtual machine bedrocks:
-
-* [[Uxn]]
-
Even though optimal resource use is not a major point in bedrock platforms, having that as well would be ideal. Not only should it be possible to make minimal-overhead emulators, but to read, [[analyze|static code analysis]], [[decompile|decompilation]] and recompile the code in order to use it on arbitrary future computers. Writers of bedrock-platform software may want to make sure that it will be easy enough to e.g. separate code from data even when analyzing binaries.
See also:
