8 Nov
1997
8 Nov
'97
6:26 p.m.
On Sat, 8 Nov 1997 11:15:17 -0600 (CST), Mr. Seagraves was heard
to remark:
We should build a computer from discrete components,
just to operate
one. And connect it to the Internet. Of course, we'd never finish
in out lifetimes, and it would fill a room, but it would be awful
cool!
I know, personally, of a chap in Germany who is, at this moment,
putting the finishing touches on a modern-day vacuum-tube computer.
I'm looking forward to seeing the designs and writing a simulator for
it so we may all have fun.
Computers aren't all _that_ hard to design and build! Just remember
that you don't _need_ all the instruction-set bloat that's so common
nowadays. Think RISC. Of course, before there was CISC/RISC there
was... well "RISC". The first time I heard of RISC the though that
popped into my mind was: "Finally! Back to basics!".
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