[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)
        
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       | Animats wrote:
       | Somebody is way too into solderless breadboards.
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       | 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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