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Developer Creates DIY 8-Bit CPU

Posted by Soulskill on from the now-that's-impressive dept.

MaizeMan writes "Not for the easily distracted: a Belmont software developer's hand-built CPU was featured in Wired recently. Starting with a $50 wire wrap board, Steve Chamberlin built his CPU with 1253 pieces of wire, each wire wrapped by hand at both ends. Chamberlin salvaged parts from '70s and '80s era computers, and the final result is an 8-bit processor with keyboard input, a USB connection, and VGA graphical output. More details are available on the developer's blog."

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  1. It must be early.... by Bentov · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Not one "but does it run linux" ? I'm sooooo disappointed...

  2. Re:trusted computing by wisty · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or they could teach them all .net, and make them read web forums. Then they are no longer smart enough.

  3. Re:Er... WTF? by Vanders · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    But you are being an ass. Telling people to go fuck themselves just re-enforces that perception.

    All I originally said was that the guy should be more articulate.

    There was nothing inarticulate about his answer at all. He said he didn't know why he did it. You're getting your panties in a bunch because you didn't like his answer, but that's just tough nuts to you. Get over yourself already.

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  4. Re:LBA-complete by TheLink · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > but I'm not aware of any generalizations of complexity theory to cover coroutines.

    And most of the computer industry expects users to figure out whether a program is safe to run or not... e.g. "Do you want to give access to XYZ?"

    Even though the users:
    1) have no meaningful access to the source code
    2) have no idea what all the inputs are (there's network access, etc)

    IMO they're being asked to solve something harder than the halting problem. Kind of unfair :).

    We should make things easier and safer for users. Oh well...

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  5. Re:But does it run Vista? by rubycodez · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the machine has an addressing limitation, your turing tape is too short 8D