Comment by jerjerjer
3 months ago
Year 3567: automatic interstellar probe finds remnants a technical alien civilization.
Year 3678, Show HN: I compiled DOOM for an alien CPU architecture.
Vernor Vinge kind of touches this topic a bit in his Zones of Thought series.
Haha I solemnly promise that I'll compile DOOM for an alien CPU architecture if we ever get access to one!
How fitting
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-02-17
How could one theoretically reverse-engineer a CPU?
With an electron microscope possibly.
Sometimes, sometimes just optical, but in any case, there's even a guy, Ken Sherriff, who has been doing this as a hobby for ages. It's not like this is merely theoretical.
https://www.righto.com/search/label/reverse-engineering
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