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Homebrew CPU Home Page (2002)
- dang 9y agoSome previous threads at https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=homebrewcpu.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=homebrewcpu.com. We can go with 2002 because https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://homebrewcpu.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://homebrewcpu.com/, though 'webring' suggests earlier...
- Theodores 9y agoThis from the P.P.P.S: > "Do you really think I don't know when you're playing with your toys? On the rare occasion when you are doing real work, you slouch. When you are playing with your hobby project you get all intense. You know you can't fool me. Never forget that." Bear that in mind with your own pet projects and make sure that in your pet projects you are getting intense. Slouching in work is one thing, slouching in pet projects, now that is serious! We all start things and don't finish them, or buy all the gear and get no further, I think there is a lot to learn from how this guy runs his project.
- amelius 9y agoWell, it could also be that this project was simply too easy for this guy. So building it was actually a form of slouching.
- DamonHD 9y agoYes, indeed, a ~4MHz 8-bit CPU. Like all the best. I used to run my Z80As at 4MHz (1MIPS), and currently I run my machine-learning, AES-GCM crypting, radiator valve AVRs at 1MIPS! Im still staggered that the beast still appears to be running a live HTTP server...