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I think kids or at least there’s the risk of kids seeing old people romantically reenacting their eight bit micro days and think that it’s some thing besides no

I think kids or at least there’s the risk of kids seeing old people romantically reenacting their eight bit micro days and think that it’s some thing besides nostalgia. I was kind of the opposite as a kid, if it wasn’t crazy futuristic I didn’t want it. So even in the 80s I wanted an FPGA accelerators in every machine.

bitwize 3y ago
It's not just nostalgia. Those old computers really are fun to operate -- like an MGB is fun to drive -- in ways modern systems aren't, even if they are far less useful than a modern system. In fact it's now possible to take advantage of modern software tools on modern systems and push those old beasts to new heights they couldn't have possibly reached during their heyday.
LoganDark 3y ago
> even in the 80s I wanted an FPGA accelerators in every machine Mostly unrelated, but I recently discovered that you can buy TPUs, right now, as a consumer product, from https://coral.ai https://coral.ai. The stock firmware already allows you to run these things so hard they overheat, which is amazing. But yes, I also want FPGA accelerators.