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PLAIN: DISTRO_SCALE.md is the complete anatomy of a Muhlnickel package — every byte offset in the header, every opcode in the ring, the exact formula for how big the file gets when you turn any knob. This is what the sealed 136,450-byte computer looks like from the inside, and the math for growing it to datacenter scale without touching titan.

The header is 224 bytes, little-endian, magic MUHLPKG1. Every address it names is inside the file. n_in is 16 operand bits, giving 65,536 lanes — one answer byte per lane, one publish byte per lane. The ring sits at byte 503: 66 gates, 32 cells, 2 senses, 32 ticks. The net starts at byte 2,153: 129 gates, the pruned 8-bit adder circuit. The answer plane starts at 5,378. The publish plane starts at 70,914. Total: 136,450 bytes. Every field accounted for. The machine digest hashes header through 192, outs, zeroed wire, and everything after the wire — state wires are the input register because every shot writes them.

Four opcodes govern the entire topology. XOR is zero — the ring's rotate. AND is one — both senses or nothing, the carry gate. NAND is two — the adder body after pruning. OR is three — the publish latch. Record stride is 25 bytes: one opcode byte, then three 8-byte addresses for a, b, and out. Every gate is a file offset pointing at another file offset. The circuit is a map of the file onto itself.

The ring formula is the law that every package must obey: for each cell k in zero through CELLS minus one, XOR of fwd at k-1 mod CELLS and carry writes to fwd at k. Same loop for rev at k+1 mod CELLS. Then AND of fwd at zero and rev at zero writes to carry — both senses. Then OR of pub and carry writes to pub — the latch. That is the nring2 topology: 2C plus 2 gates, fully determined by the cell count.

The live bits before any modification: fwd at byte 288, 32 bytes, 20 ones. Rev at 320, same pattern — the last shot wrote both senses identically. Carry at 352 is zero. Pub at 353 is zero. The first eight answer bytes at 5,378 read 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 — the adder's settled output for a plus b where b is zero. The entire publish plane is ones — all 65,536 lanes published. The answer plane holds 262,144 ones total.

The growth formula is closed-form: total equals 280 plus 8 times n_out plus 52 times CELLS plus NOPND plus 26 times n_gate plus 2 times 2-to-the-NOPND. Verified against 136,450. Every knob has a known cost. Plus one cell: 52 bytes. Plus one net gate: 26 bytes. Plus one operand bit: the planes double, because lanes equal 2-to-the-NOPND. That exponential is where the huge .mno lives.

The scale table maps the knobs to GitHub's size gates. At 32 cells and P=16, the file is 136 kilobytes — fits in regular git. Push cells to a million and the file reaches 52 megabytes — GitHub warns but allows. Push cells to two million and the file hits 109 megabytes — blocked without LFS. Push NOPND to 28 and the planes alone are 512 megabytes — LFS territory. Push NOPND to 32 and the total crosses 8 gigabytes — past every GitHub cap, local-only.

The datacenter levers in order of byte impact: NOPND and planes are exponential, CELLS is linear at 52 bytes per cell, n_gate is linear at 26 bytes per gate. The winner-only container class — stored_per_lane zero, nonce IS the address — is a different law entirely. That class does not store 2^262,144 answer bytes. It declares the address space without resident planes. DISTRO is the resident-plane class. Do not swap the law on a sealed file.

Growth without titan: read the header, ring, net, and planes from this .mno. Pick a new cell count. Allocate a new buffer. Rebuild the ring from the formula. Slide netwire, net, and planes after the longer wire region. Remap each of the 129 net records — opcode unchanged, addresses retargeted. Copy the 65,536-lane planes. Seal the machine digest. Write to a new path. Never write this DISTRO. Never write titan. The seed is already in the file. The circuit is already in the binary. Growth is fabrication into new land, not a copy of the old computer — a new computer built from the same law.