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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. OT Ad on Google Links by VideoJ · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The first ad on the google adsense box was from Micrsoft. Clicking on it gave me the good feeling of knowing I took a few cents from Microsoft and gave it to Google and Slashdot.

  2. 3mhz? by PacketScan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow that got /.'d before anyone even tried to access the site.

  3. Re:Serves up webpages... by lbmouse · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    C'mon, it's not even a little bit sporting to slashdot something like this.

  4. Re:Dear Ask Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Probably the person who didn't need an artificial vagina. :-P

  5. Re:Garage innovation at its finest! by clausiam · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Ok - your post has me baffled

    • Trolling? No, the spelling and grammar is too good and it has 4 sentences.
    • Joking? No, because there are no funny puns
    • Being serious? Couldn't be. "Big semiconductor companies catching up to this"??? Like someone building a soap box car for their kid and now the big car companies have to catch up? This seems to be great, fun hobby-project but let's not blow it out of proportion.

    So what was the intent anyway?
  6. Re:Garage innovation at its finest! by danharan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Odd how much sarchasm we find on /.

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  7. Open letter to Steve Jobs by UnclePunk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey Steve, I know that IBM's Power PC chip has turned out to be a big disappointment. You're looking to cash in on CPU savings similar to what Dell is experiencing with Intel that IBM hasn't been able to provide. The G5 is as close to going into powerbooks as it was a few years ago. My suggestion to you is to consider using the Magic-1 CPU. Assembly is a snap! Sure, if you were to have it assembled in the US it would cost a pretty penny, but why not give our friends in Bangalore a chance? Sure, I understand that speed is a concern and that this CPU is only 3MHz. Well, dual core CPU's are starting to come out and quad core CPU's are on the horizon. You've always been an innovator. Why not have a 1000 core CPU? Can you imagine the press you'd get? All the hipsters would have to pause their iPods for a breif second in recognition. Hold the phone, you want more? How about this. This new system can be setup to launch different applications randomly. Starting up the applications you want is so passe. People love surprises. LIFE IS RANDOM.

  8. Mod Parent Up +1 insightful or something. by donscarletti · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Even though that joke was fairly predictable, it isn't fair that the poster should suffer a net karma loss for it despite the +5 funny total score. Shame on whoever gave that post an overrated moderation, may remorse be yours forever.

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