[vdupras]

Collapse OS is fully self-hosting. Once you have such a system, you can improve it and deploy it elsewhere from within. But yes, your initial deployment will come from a POSIX machine. This is why I talk about two stages of collapse.

[0hijinks]

That's kind of a bummer, but still neat to have built-in self-hosting. I think I've seen videos of perfboard computers that allow manual data entry with pushbuttons and manual clocks. I could see that being extended to punch cards. (Not trying to be flippant; I think that could be an interesting extension to this sort of project. Have a bucket of parts, a perfboard, and some paper? Let's flash an operating system.)