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CSS Is Now Turing-Equivalent

From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, February 25, 2026 23:15:32

An x86 CPU emulator written in pure CSS?

<https://www.tomshardware.com/software/programming/enterprising-developer-somehow-writes-an-x86-cpu-emulator-in-plain-css-no-javascript-no-wasm-just-stylesheet-computing>

OK, so it?s Chromium-only for now, since the necessary extensions
aren?t (yet) a standard part of CSS. But it was only a matter of time
...

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.12
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

From Kerr-Mudd, John@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, February 26, 2026 13:02:01

On Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:15:32 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

An x86 CPU emulator written in pure CSS?

<https://www.tomshardware.com/software/programming/enterprising-developer-somehow-writes-an-x86-cpu-emulator-in-plain-css-no-javascript-no-wasm-just-stylesheet-computing>

OK, so it?s Chromium-only for now, since the necessary extensions
aren?t (yet) a standard part of CSS. But it was only a matter of time
...

If only there were web browsers that were still able to work on
an x86 PC.

--
Bah, and indeed, Humbug

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.12
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

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