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Because it's possible. Bringing up more advanced CPUs alone and with hobbyist tools is borderline impossible. Nothing revolutionary changed (Sorry Pentiums) unt

Because it's possible. Bringing up more advanced CPUs alone and with hobbyist tools is borderline impossible. Nothing revolutionary changed (Sorry Pentiums) until the Opteron, so you're covering an entie era by doing this and learning a ton that applies even today. I dislike the premise of your question though. There's no reason it need to be economically useful. People can just do things thy love and enjoy. On top of that, this question is like asking why learn finite automata, why not just jump straight to Turing machines and trying to solve P=?NP. No, that's nonsense obviously and you gotta walk before you can run.

flyinglizard 5y ago
The level of expertise in the OP is way above “walking” when translated to EE terms. It’s educational no doubt but so was every one of my professional projects over the years. Yes I completely agree that people should do what they enjoy - it’s just that every now and then I see this completely amazing undertaking with absolutely no extrinsic value and I wonder. It’s all a very personal vantage point of course.
- guerrilla 5y ago
  > The level of expertise in the OP is way above “walking” when translated to EE terms I know, I've looked into doing it and this is mind-blowing but they're relative terms and it depends on what you compare it to. This is "walking" compared to bringing up a Ryzen machine. > with absolutely no extrinsic value Why should it? And how do you know it doesn't and they just haven't documented that?