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aeva

@cwebber Now all you need to do is build your own FPGA from 357 transistors and then not only will your system be immaculate all the way up, it'll also be immaculate all the way down

26 Apr 2023 at 17:15 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
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mcc
aeva
mym

@aeva @mcc @cwebber i am honestly amazed a search for "open hardware silicon etching" did not bring up any pie in the sky hackerspace projects

26 Apr 2023 at 18:21 | Open on toot.cat
aeva

@mym @mcc @cwebber they exist. every now and then people rediscover the lost art of making one (1) transistor from scratch

26 Apr 2023 at 18:58 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
mcc

@aeva @mym @cwebber I keep thinking given its historical obsession with economic/cultural self-sufficiency, it ought to be possible to get Canada to fund the invention and/or build-out of processes for small-batch local ic fab

26 Apr 2023 at 18:59 | Open on mastodon.social
aeva

@mcc @mym @cwebber one transistor may be modest start, but if you can secure stable funding for your lab you might find yourself with many moore of them.

26 Apr 2023 at 19:07 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
mcc

@aeva @mym @cwebber *we* *must* *convert* *Canada* *to* *Computronium*

26 Apr 2023 at 19:12 | Open on mastodon.social
Ramin Honary

@aeva @cwebber
Sorry, I just have to ask you, why specifically the number 357 transistors? Is this like the smallest know number of transistors required to implement a lambda machine in hardware?

EDIT: oh I just got it! You mean an individually packaged NPN transistor, model number 357! You could build a lambda machine out of those, you could even make it useful if you provided it enough memory!

EDIT2: OH SHIT!!!! The root program of the Guix bootstrap is 357 bytes!!! Same model number for a NPN transistor. This can NOT be a coincidence.

357 is God's number!!! Mind blown. This is like, something out of the movie "Pi", I need a drill purge this shit from my brain!!!

@aeva @cwebber
Sorry, I just have to ask you, why specifically the number 357 transistors? Is this like the smallest know number of transistors required to implement a lambda machine in hardware?

EDIT: oh I just got it! You mean an individually packaged NPN transistor, model number 357! You could build a lambda machine out of those, you could even make it useful if you provided it enough memory!

27 Apr 2023 at 1:28 | Open on emacs.ch
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