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...when they find out that this device 'wrests' electrons from bacteria? Do bacteria have human rights too? Hope activists don't get 'The Matrix' idea (we're just going to make copper-tops out of these poor defenseless microorganisms)....
Let me remind you old folks with the Altair (still in the basement) about something. Computer Engineering is not just a hobby or a club which you are qualified to join if you built a computer from the transistors up (or trio-tubes as the case may be). It is a legitamate industry and profession, as you well know.
Russ may not have designed the IC with VLSI, but he and his team designed the ALU, Registers, Datapath, Control, Memory Interface, VGA controller, DAC (if he used one), and gamepad controller, not to mention writing their own assembly that would translate to IntelMCS format, oh...and the code itself. I am sure it took more than 2 weeks to do this. Besides how many of you started by building a transistor radio? That doesn't seem to be anything cool by today's standards. Are you afraid that us younguns' are gonna pass you by?
On a redeeming note, THANK YOU ancient ones! Were it not for your tenacity and ingenuity (some a result of quick fixes ie. 8086->8088) we young wippersnappers would not be where we are today. Were it not for your concrete and cement, we greenies would have to travel in muddy rut-filled roads!
By the way, for an outlined plan of what Russ did, check out this site Computer Design It may not be up much longer since the semester is over. Maybe you guys could get an XESS board and do it too, instead of stamping out the creativity in this poor undergraduate's mind! Oh yeah, nobody's going to pay you to do it either!
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...when they find out that this device 'wrests' electrons from bacteria? Do bacteria have human rights too? Hope activists don't get 'The Matrix' idea (we're just going to make copper-tops out of these poor defenseless microorganisms)....
Let me remind you old folks with the Altair (still in the basement) about something. Computer Engineering is not just a hobby or a club which you are qualified to join if you built a computer from the transistors up (or trio-tubes as the case may be). It is a legitamate industry and profession, as you well know.
Russ may not have designed the IC with VLSI, but he and his team designed the ALU, Registers, Datapath, Control, Memory Interface, VGA controller, DAC (if he used one), and gamepad controller, not to mention writing their own assembly that would translate to IntelMCS format, oh...and the code itself. I am sure it took more than 2 weeks to do this. Besides how many of you started by building a transistor radio? That doesn't seem to be anything cool by today's standards. Are you afraid that us younguns' are gonna pass you by?
On a redeeming note, THANK YOU ancient ones! Were it not for your tenacity and ingenuity (some a result of quick fixes ie. 8086->8088) we young wippersnappers would not be where we are today. Were it not for your concrete and cement, we greenies would have to travel in muddy rut-filled roads!
By the way, for an outlined plan of what Russ did, check out this site Computer Design It may not be up much longer since the semester is over. Maybe you guys could get an XESS board and do it too, instead of stamping out the creativity in this poor undergraduate's mind! Oh yeah, nobody's going to pay you to do it either!
I guess we can't call adhesive bandages band-aids or baby passifiers binkies...or nose tissue klennexes. Besides, they're not making any money.