Even Older Man Yells At Whippersnappers

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 07:12 pm, Gregory Ewing wrote:

> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Alternatively, you should design an instruction set and implement it
>> using microcode and AM2900 bit-slice processors.
> 
> AMD2900? That's cheating! You should design and build your
> own logic gates. After refining the silicon to make the
> transistors first, of course.

Silicon? You had it easy.

In my day all we had was hydrogen and helium, we had to make our own silicon
using fusion.



-- 
Steve
“Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure
enough, things got worse.