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Hand-made Web Server, Built From 200 TTL Chips

Posted by Hemos on from the good-stuff-to-do dept.

ps writes "Bill Buzbee has constructed a hand-made CPU, complete with hardware address translation, memory mapped I/O, and DMA, out of 200 74-series TTL chips wired together with thousands of individually wrapped wires. By using a port of Adam Dunkels' uIP TCP/IP stack to the Magic-1, it currently serves up live web pages at an amazing speed of 3 MHz. See the website for photos and schematics."

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  1. Serves up webpages... by drunkennewfiemidget · · Score: 5, Funny

    And as part of its stress-testing procedure, its been slashdotted!

    1. Re:Serves up webpages... by squiggleslash · · Score: 5, Funny

      I just read something in the Wall Street Journal suggesting he was going to phase out the 200 TTL chips, and switch to Intel...

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    2. Re:Serves up webpages... by pegr · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sadly, I don't think that the /. effect is anywhere near what it was several years ago.

      Fark takes down sites faster.

      And posts the same stories a week earlier! :p

  2. Garage innovation at its finest! by seanadams.com · · Score: 4, Funny

    This just goes to show the kind of amazing innovation that can still come out of a garage project. One guy working on his own can sometimes come up with ideas that the big guys like Intel etc are just too slow to be able to jump on. They're all fiddling around trying to get their buggy Verilog tools to work, while this guy just goes and wire wraps it in a few evenings. Bravo! I'll bet it takes the big semiconductor companies at least a year to catch up with this.

  3. Checklist by nizo · · Score: 5, Funny
    - Lots of gigantor pictures: Check
    - Already slow even before hitting the front page: Check
    - Millions of bored geeks have just dragged themselves into work: Check


    Yep, there is no chance this will get slashdotted, but in case it does, I think there is a mirror working here.

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  4. Re:Not a smart move.. by lanced · · Score: 5, Funny

    That just goes to show how advanced that computer really is. This guy included firewire.

  5. Looks Like He's Whipped Also by HABITcky · · Score: 5, Funny
    I love this part from his site:
    When I said "my wife" in the previous section, I actually meant to say "my beautiful, intelligent and under appreciated wife who not only does way more than her share of the work around here, but also knows that this web site exists and checks it out from time to time."
    1. Re:Looks Like He's Whipped Also by That's+Unpossible! · · Score: 4, Funny

      There's a fine line between "being whipped" and "getting laid more often."

      A fine line.

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  6. Almost familar by CBob · · Score: 4, Funny

    Blinky lights~Real Computer

    10 years ago I worked in a mainframe shop that had upgraded from the 4381 to a 9121. Neither system had much "eye candy". That meant that the client didn't have much to show off in the "big window" of the data center when tours/investors were guided thru.

    Unless Tex was working.(and thankfully he almost always there). He was the client's rep that ordered paper by the semi for us & was able to bend Standard Register to his will with a mere phone call(one semi load of paper a year will usually do that, we did multiples)

    Tex would lead the tour to the window and happily point to the elderly IBM network controller(box was actually blue on the sides, model forgotten) with all its blinking status leds and tell em "there is the computer".

    They'd make "pretty lights" noises and continue along, Tex would grin from ear to ear & we'd have to wait till they left before we could run outta air laughing.

    Tex dreaded the times anyone talked about network upgrades.

  7. submitter guilty of gross negligence and vandalism by Thud457 · · Score: 5, Funny
    That was just MEAN!

    This is a prime case where the submitter should have : 1) warned the site's owner, 2) made arrangements for a mirror or coral cache or bittorrent whatever. Because you KNOW this bitch was gonna go down like a three-year-old trying to stop a stampeding herd of elephants.

    And the alledged "management" of slashdot should have at least warned the poor sap before unleashing this upon his little corner of the web.

    That said, this sounds uber-l33t, and I'm planning to check it out once the smoking rubble is cleared away.

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  8. How long does it take to rip a CD on this succa?!! by Thud457 · · Score: 5, Funny

    DRM-free, beeyotch!!!!

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