Thanks for this context. I hadn't known about the link to Jim Clark but it makes sense. Here's another one. It's Carver Mead, Lynn Conway's co-author, talking

Thanks for this context. I hadn't known about the link to Jim Clark but it makes sense. Here's another one. It's Carver Mead, Lynn Conway's co-author, talking about the genesis of their legendary book, and process. I was a university student at the time, and this was the way you could get your little custom processor into a fab and get hardware back. It was kind of amazing to go from a digital file through a compiler and verification, and then to hardware. Carver's description with some backstory (probably helpful): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAZWXX5930M&t=1984s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAZWXX5930M&t=1984s And skipped ahead to just the book part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAZWXX5930M&t=2064s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAZWXX5930M&t=2064s