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> This kind of minimalism and stripping things down to their essence is a powerful tool to allow you to focus on what matters rather than at all those things th
by Cyph0n 9y ago
> This kind of minimalism and stripping things down to their essence is a powerful tool to allow you to focus on what matters rather than at all those things that don't really matter. If you don't actually need 4 GHz chips and billions of transistors to get the job done then why would you?
I agree entirely. I just wanted to point out that it's not accurate to equate what Chuck designed (i.e., OKAD) to a modern EDA toolchain and technology node.
If it works for him, then great!
- jacquesm 9y agoNobody equated that. The time when he made his is decades ago, so obviously nothing from those days compared to a modern EDA toolchain and associated bits and pieces. I think you subconsciously added the 'modern' in there somewhere and then argued against that.
- Cyph0n 9y agoYou might actually be right. When I read this: > He wrote his own chip design software and analog simulator I immediately thought of a modern toolchain. Had I known that this was done decades ago, I might have reacted differently. Nonetheless, even decades ago, both Cadence and Synopsys likely had pretty advanced tools under development. I may be mistaken though.
- pantulis 9y agoHeh, I remember running Solo 2030 on Motorola-based Sun workstations almost 25 years ago...
- amalawi 9y agoMoore mentioned these in passing at the end if the link https://colorforth.github.io/1percent.html https://colorforth.github.io/1percent.html He was stressing the solution fits the problem. Not a solution which can cover/contain the problem