> Depending on the chip set used, it took from two to four chips to put together a working microprocessor.
That's the way I remember it too. I seem to recall (at least) something about a multi-phased clock, and an address decoder thingie. I still have Intel databooks from that era, but I'm too lazy to look it up.
Back in 1979/80 or so, I worked on readying for manufacture a prototype slot machine that Harrah's Casinos (there were only two then, Reno & Tahoe) had built using the 4004. Intel had quit making the 4004 by then, so the choice came down to buying the remaining supply, or do it over using a "real" (Z80) processor. The project never really got off the ground.
Not so much "left Sony" as "retired". Seriously, both the summary and TFA are like "Sony in major world of poo - engineers leaving", rather than "trailbreaking engineer retires".
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Rise: Chuck Peddle
Fall: Jack Tramiel
Nope, just one likometer.
I'm raisin' me up a crop of dental floss, with my zircon encrusted tweezers glintin' in the moonlight...
1 Library of Congress == 6.19 * 10^17 fortune cookies
> Depending on the chip set used, it took from two to four chips to put together a working microprocessor.
That's the way I remember it too. I seem to recall (at least) something about a multi-phased clock, and an address decoder thingie. I still have Intel databooks from that era, but I'm too lazy to look it up.
Back in 1979/80 or so, I worked on readying for manufacture a prototype slot machine that Harrah's Casinos (there were only two then, Reno & Tahoe) had built using the 4004. Intel had quit making the 4004 by then, so the choice came down to buying the remaining supply, or do it over using a "real" (Z80) processor. The project never really got off the ground.
Hear! Hear! Hollow out an iron asteroid, move to desired orbit, rinse, repeat. Why climb out of this gravity well to climb down another?
I understand there's a large magnetic anomoly in the Tycho crater...
Lost the source, did you? ;)
Why is an old Oliver Stone film on Slashdot?
> ISS trash isn't actually trash --- it's extremely valuable material (and mass) that has been boosted into LEO at very high cost.
Unfortunately, most of it has been processed through astronaut intestines.
Not so much "left Sony" as "retired". Seriously, both the summary and TFA are like "Sony in major world of poo - engineers leaving", rather than "trailbreaking engineer retires".
How did the guy who tags all the other articles "itsatrap" miss this one?
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[x] Death by ooga booga
What if all Windows users started demanding their money back?
White kid? Bad complexion? Limited social skills? Above average intelligence? Lives in parents basement?
"Round up the usual suspects"
TPS_Report is correct, "cited" is the proper word. Didn't you get the memo?
Yah - I'll vote for another Texas Republican when hell freezes over and Microsoft starts partnering with Linux vendors.
Drink the Kool-Aid. Trust us - it's delicious.
Not at all. It's psychology - trying to climb into somebody you've never met's head to figure out what they were thinking.
Don't we already do enough computer archeology trying to figure out other people's code?
You have to think about all the recent chatter about Oracle having their own Linux distro, and suddenly 2 + 2 = 4...
Try to think of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact for some historical perspective.
Semantic web 2.0?
Ahem
Parallelization only gives you so much. A process blocked on I/O is blocked, no matter how many threads you throw at it.
Damn preview button - grumble grumble...