PicoClaw is an ultra-lightweight personal AI Assistant inspired by nanobot, refactored from the ground up in Go. It runs on $10 hardware with <10MB RAM and boasts fast startup times and portability.
The article details how the Intel 80386 CPU implemented backwards compatibility with 8- and 16-bit software. It explains the use of SRAM for register storage, a triple-ported register file, and a 'shuffle' network to handle different bit-width reads and writes, including interleaving the bottom 16 bits of the registers.
