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> > I must say
> > that I love your idea of 'rolling your own' vacuum tubes though.
> > I would have many beers with someone that dedicated!
>
> I proposed that to my physics teacher (when I was ~ 13y). He
> laughed loud and sarcastically and said that I should use water
> valves instead. He was the kind that (even way back then) liked to
> use highly integrated one-purpose chips. In frustration I partly
> switched myn interests to chemistry, which had a more adventurous
> teacher.
>
> More recently I dreamed about building my own CPU from all those
> RAMs, EPROMs and '245 chips lying around, porting gcc to it and
> running Linux. But realising that 10 MIPS is almost impossible to
> reach that way (1 is more likely) spoiled the fun.

You could always get a large Xilinx FPGA and build a CPU on it, then
port Linux to that, and get more than 10MIPS...  Not quite the same,
I know, but very similar when you think about it...

Incidentally, Am I the only one that's interested in the Piclist MCU
idea?  You know, where we all band together, and go buy ourselves a
custom designed MCU?

- --Brendan

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