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This reminds me of Dave Taylor's idea for "pinky processors". These were similarly minimal, relying on conditional branches to do much of the work. Taylor thoug
by oofabz 6y ago
This reminds me of Dave Taylor's idea for "pinky processors". These were similarly minimal, relying on conditional branches to do much of the work. Taylor thought massive numbers of these clocked at high frequencies would deliver more computation than complex high-IPC processors. He was wrong, as the failures of the Pentium 4 and AMD's Bulldozer would later demonstrate, but at least he was ahead of his time.
Unlike Taylor's ideas, this MyNOR actually exists in the real world, which is all the more impressive considering how impractical it is.
- trhway 6y ago>how impractical it is the ideas like MyNOR dovetail nicely with the couple posts/discussions here recently about rebooting/bootstrapping the civilization. One can imagine several situations where we'd have to go back to basics - wars, catastrophes and/or colonies on other planets or even generational ship, etc. I mean in the situation without modern technology available, we know how to make simple crystal diode and with a bit of small effort transistor and that would let us build very simple computer along the lines of the MyNOR ... One can also imagine it in the other direction - how a traveler from the year 3000 would try to build a quantum-quark-multidimensional-time-accelerated MyNOR of the year 3000 using the year 2020 technology - i mean we probably already have some pieces allowing to build a crude version of it.