[HN Gopher] An 8-bit minicomputer with a fully custom architecture
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An 8-bit minicomputer with a fully custom architecture
 
Author : tirrex
Score  : 10 points
Date   : 2021-12-10 21:52 UTC (1 hours ago)
 
web link (github.com)
w3m dump (github.com)
 
| Animats wrote:
| Somebody is way too into solderless breadboards.
| 
| I can see building a CPU from smaller components, but not dealing
| with loose connections in that mess.
 
| codezero wrote:
| Slightly off topic, but I'm looking forward to FPGA tooling
| improving to the point where I can build a fantasy personal
| computer based on dragging and dropping architectural components
| into a design that compiles to hardware.
| 
| I'm definitely too lazy to design from scratch or build by hand,
| and there's already so much out there designed for FPGAs, so just
| hoping one day it may be plug and play like the Mister is for
| entire systems.
 
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