Back in the days of floppy drives, an interesting technical challenge was: write a system that boots, compiles itself, and enters its REPL before the drive mechanics manage to hit full RPM.

What would the equivalent be on current systems? I suppose it might be possible to write a system that boots in a single bandwidth-delay product, but somehow that doesn't have the same attraction.

ando wok fash nawit towsh nagut (running light without overbyte)