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I am still genuinely amazed about what was achieved in this era, bearing in mind that these things took years to develop so started much earlier when most peopl
by lbriner 4y ago
I am still genuinely amazed about what was achieved in this era, bearing in mind that these things took years to develop so started much earlier when most people probably had never heard of a transistor.
Despite the infancy of the industry, these people not only designed an enormous electronic circuit but had to work out how to achieve compatability with inputs and outputs as advanced as graphics, how to store data in memory, had to perform a tonne of debugging and had to get this thing etched onto silicon and then produced at scale.
Wow, just wow.
- PaulHoule 4y agoI see it the other way around. Steve Wozniak implemented Breakout with fewer 50 small scale integration chips, which is a fraction of the complexity of a 6502 CPU. I mean, a build system for a trivial JavaScript app is probably more complex than the software the flew the Space Shuttle