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author | Kartik K. Agaram <vc@akkartik.com> | 2021-10-29 07:37:09 -0700 |
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committer | Kartik K. Agaram <vc@akkartik.com> | 2021-10-29 07:37:09 -0700 |
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diff --git a/tutorial/index.md b/tutorial/index.md index 8e605d88..745737a6 100644 --- a/tutorial/index.md +++ b/tutorial/index.md @@ -7,20 +7,21 @@ instruction set. Everything easy to change to your needs ([habitable](http://akkartik.name/post/habitability)), everything easy to check up on ([auditable](http://akkartik.name/post/neighborhood)). -This page is a guided tour through Mu's Readme and reference documentation. -We'll start out really slow and gradually accelerate as we build up skills. By -the end of it all, I hope you'll be able to program your processor to run some -small graphical programs. The programs will only use a small subset of your -computer's capabilities; there's still a lot I don't know and therefore cannot -teach. However, the programs will run on a _real_ processor without needing -any other intermediary software. +This page is a guided tour through [Mu's Readme](https://github.com/akkartik/mu) +and reference documentation. We'll start out really slow and gradually +accelerate as we build up skills. By the end of it all, I hope you'll be able +to program your processor to run some small graphical programs. The programs +will only use a small subset of your computer's capabilities; there's still a +lot I don't know and therefore cannot teach. However, the programs will run on +a _real_ processor without needing any other intermediary software. _Prerequisites_ You will need: -* A computer with an x86 processor running Linux. We're going to slowly escape - Linux, but we'll need it at the start. Mu works on other platforms, but be +* A computer with an x86 processor running Linux. Mu is designed to eventually + escape Linux, but still needs some _host_ environment for now. Other + platforms will also do (BSD, Mac OS, Windows Subsystem for Linux), but be warned that things will be _much_ (~20x) slower. * Some fluency in typing commands at the terminal and interpreting their output. |