Subj : Re: New Pico2
To   : Ahem A Rivet's Shot
From : Theo
Date : Tue Aug 13 2024 15:42:47

Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
> On 13 Aug 2024 14:01:07 +0100 (BST)
> Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > It's easy to write a core
>
>         I wish I could take that statement back to say 1975.

In those days you'd 'write' the core...  by drawing the transistors with
pens (or sticky tapes, hence 'tape out').

But those cores gave us computing power which we could use to design the
next generation of chips.  Repeat for 50 years and now the computer does the
drawing and we just have to tell it what to draw (and write the compiler, of
course).

Theo

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