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we started at the transistor level, building AND/OR gates. Then XOR/NAND etc, then a simple ALU (using real nand/and/or etc chips) then a simple register, etc a
by whakojacko 16y ago
we started at the transistor level, building AND/OR gates. Then XOR/NAND etc, then a simple ALU (using real nand/and/or etc chips) then a simple register, etc all the way up, each step getting an integrated chip to replace what we had built with smaller components in the previous step.
- indy 16y agoFor anyone whose interested in this sort of thing I highly recommend The Elements of Computing Systems (http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/ http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/).