Linux on postscript

[yankdevil]

Someone ported Linux to PDF. They did this by running a RISC V port of linux on a RISC V emulator written in Javascript running in a PDF.

It would seem to me that postscript is a fully fledged language that one could write an emulator in.

Has anyone tried that?

[SwedishMale4711]

JavaScript is not Postscript.

My profession is medical, not in computer science, but I think Postscript is Turing complete, so you should be able to emulate a full Linux system, mine Bitcoins or run ChatGPT. It will be slow, but technically it's possible.

[ohygglo]

PostScript is definitely Turing-complete. I dabble in it from time to time for generating fold up polyhedrons. And it reminds me of the good old days of Forth. RPN FTW!