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to11mtm
3 months ago
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What if humanity forgot how to make CPUs?
A 6502 can easily power a robot to bend metal and other objects. You can bootstrap everything else from there.
trollbridge
3 months ago
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So can a machine built entirely from discrete components. A VAX 11/780 had no microprocessor at all. Just a CPU built out of components.
nxobject
3 months ago
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Not quite - the VAX-11/780 relied on what was essentially a LSI PDP-11/03 as a general purpose glue processor (the “console interface board”) for the CPU initialization sequence, console and floppy I/O, and other assorted tasks.
vardump
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We could call it Bender.
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