There is a certain benefit to being an early adopter. If you were around when Unix or MSDOS had a handful of commands, it wasn’t hard to learn. Then you learn new things as they come along. If you ...
As it turns out, the answer is not 42, it’s 42.3 — thousand. That’s how many discrete transistors spread across the 30 m 2 room housing this massive computation machine. [James Newman’s] Megaprocessor ...
A full-discrete 'CPU1738' consisting of MOSFETs (metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors) and diodes including LEDs without using any ICs is combined with the robot chassis to automatically ...
Microprocessors for PCs are at the forefront of the computing industry, leading with huge nanoscale chips built in multibillion-dollar fab plants. So far, the success of the semiconductor industry has ...
An extraordinary handmade CPU is on exhibition at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, England. The 16-bit 'chip', if the term isn't too jarring, is made from 42,000 hand-soldered ...