Linn Invents a Completely Insane CPU

A Scottish audio company, famous for their turntables, once invented a CPU architecture. Their internal software kind of sucked. Somehow along the way, the company became convinced that the problem was not from their programmers being bad. No, instead the (logical) conclusion was that all traditional Von Neumann-style computers were WRONG. Linn (the audio group) needed to develop their own design, which became known as the Rekursiv. Honestly, if you can get past the insanity it’s actually quite admirable. The whitepaper is clearly written by some (very) stubborn engineers; it’s like the opposite of RISC, no visible memory addresses, everything’s an object, auto GC, etc. Oh, and they wrote their own programming language to go with it, of course (Lingo). g 2. MICROSCOPYTREE: entf 1 pagebus d=ustack crtf IDXBADTYPES newtbr _CONS incmsp m.sp’ newmpt r jf MICROSCOPYTREE ldustk d=prgorr // the CD m.fp 1 uaddbr newmptr readustk pagebus d=ustack idx2 newsr newbr loadaddr

A screenshot of a post describing Linn, a Scottish audio company known for turntables, and its bizarre Rekursiv CPU architecture. The joke is the absurd contrast between a hi-fi company inventing an unconventional processor and its own strange programming language, presented as both insane and admirable. It is used as a reaction to overly ambitious, eccentric engineering projects or Jonathan Blow-style programming eccentricity. EN: A screenshot of a post describing Linn, a Scottish audio company known for turntables, and its bizarre Rekursiv CPU architecture. The joke is the absurd contrast between a hi-fi company inventing an unconventional processor and its own strange programming language, presented as both insane and admirable. It is used as a reaction to overly ambitious, eccentric engineering projects or Jonathan Blow-style programming eccentricity.

• @gentoomemes / 21364 2026-07-16