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> The barrier to entry was very low. If you had the money. Those chips weren't cheap back then (even the 74xx branch), and you still needed quite a few to do a
by cr0sh 9y ago
> The barrier to entry was very low.
If you had the money. Those chips weren't cheap back then (even the 74xx branch), and you still needed quite a few to do anything useful when it came to building a CPU.
- grkvlt 9y agoWell, there's always the 74181, a 4 bit ALU[0] as used in the Alto[1] among others like the NOVA and VAX 11/780. 0. https://mil.ufl.edu/4712/docs/74LS181.pdf https://mil.ufl.edu/4712/docs/74LS181.pdf 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/74181#Computers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/74181#Computers