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Post by microfarad on Oct 30, 2010 7:26:31 GMT
This is as much to document this date, thus crediting me with the first realization of this idea, as anything else. It isn't necessarily going to make sense.
Some time ago (2 years?) I ran across this awesome thing called the Digi-Comp. I thought, well, if you expand it to have more flip flops, and state rules, it would be more powerful. But making lots of state rules is difficult, so I thought, why not put all of those on a looped paper tape punched with holes? From there, it expanded. Tapes can have programs on them. Flip flops can act as IO, perhaps even interfacing with RAM. If there is RAM then the flip flops become registers and IO interfaces with the paper tape being micro code. Or what if it was all electrical? What if the paper tape was replaced with a signal broadcasted to many such machines? What if you linked more than one together, interfacing over common flip flops? Just be careful to avoid setting conflicts. This could mean a central processor with peripheral units, such as ALUs. Or it could be many CPUs running in parallel... You could make it out of Lego, out of paper, digital gates, metal, wood, vacuum tubes, whatever.
Alright, just wanted to get this documented... Someday this idea may be big, and I want to get the credit for this...
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Post by ~Memzak~ on Oct 30, 2010 17:04:53 GMT
So you are going to what?!
*head asplodes*
Good luck with that, seriously. It's going to take a looong time for you to make. If you are going to make it after all...
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