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Developer Creates DIY 8-Bit CPU
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."
Wooooosh
Not one "but does it run linux" ? I'm sooooo disappointed...
Um, just to be pedantic, doesn't a Turing Machine have infinite storage capacity (i.e. infinitely long tape)? The question then really is whether or not this system can have extra storage connected (e.g. a USB hard drive plus the driver software fitted into the limited RAM) in order to do this.
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Or they could teach them all .net, and make them read web forums. Then they are no longer smart enough.
you're resorting to telling an awful lot of people to go fuck themselves over this article, and the guy from the OP is the one who needs better people skills?
I started off saying the guy in the article should be more articulate. For my trouble I got called an ass and got modded into oblivion. So yeah, I'm telling an awful lot of wankers to go fuck themselves and that does not in any way conflict with my message that these people need to get some people skills. I wasn't the one who started throwing around insults.
is that the best you can come up with? you don't know how else to express yourself? i'd expect someone who's not claiming any geek skills to have MUCH MUCH better people skills than that.
Says the fucker that posts as a/c. What the fuck are you saying here that you require anonymity??? Listening to you lecture me about people skills is like trying to listen to a monkey give a lecutre on nuclear physics.
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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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I see your posts all of the time, and it baffles me that more people don't respond to you and tell you to go fsck yourself the way the parent poster did! You are constantly posting ridiculous diatribes that often contradict each other. You are the scourge of Slashdot, and I really hope they cancel your account!
That's a pretty strong claim to make. Care to back it? Find me a handful of examples of where I contradict myself. You say I constantly do it so it should be easy to find say 5 examples? Clear examples mind you, not some bogus misinterpretted set of statements taken out of context. 5 clear contradictions. Bet you don't do it though.
I'm constantly amazed and the ridiculously anti-social reaction some slashdotters have to a point of view they don't like or agree with. What childish stupidity could have you post such a vile rant is beyond me. Do you REALLY hae nothing better to do? PATHETIC!!!
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> 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...
the machine has an addressing limitation, your turing tape is too short 8D