Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large (2016)
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Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large (2016)
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Re: Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large (2016)
#2This is AWESOME
Re: Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large (2016)
#3Wait - this thing runs Windows?! I figured it ran some kind of bytecode or toy OS. That's very neat that it runs a commercial operating system.
I'd seen this post before but I'd never noticed the monitor with the Windows login screen.
Re: Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large (2016)
#4Missed opportunity to call it a "macroprocessor".
Re: Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large (2016)
#5Wait - this thing runs Windows?! I figured it ran some kind of bytecode or toy OS. That's very neat that it runs a commercial operating system. I'd seen this post before but I'd never noticed the monitor with the Windows login screen.
I doubt it. There seem to be several SBCs in the picture with the Windows terminal.
The Windows terminal is probably used to communicate with the megaprocessor.
Re: Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large (2016)
#6Wait - this thing runs Windows?! I figured it ran some kind of bytecode or toy OS. That's very neat that it runs a commercial operating system. I'd seen this post before but I'd never noticed the monitor with the Windows login screen.
It definitely does not run Windows. It has 32 kB of RAM, 16-bit registers and a custom instruction set. That will never run Windows 1, let alone Windows 7 :)
Re: Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large (2016)
#7I often wondered i could build some sort of general computing machine if we were pushed back to the dark ages or something. I guess you have to define exactly at what level of technological achievements we were pushed back to. But with the knowledge we have today, and without ICs (or advanced manufacturing facilities) and only "simple electronics" (whatever that would be) if this would be possible. Fun stuff to think about!
Re: Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large (2016)
#8If the ISA is sufficiently efficient, 8kHz is fast enough to run interpreters. An 8kHz can be useful as a calculator, running thing similar to FORTRAN and, if is has suitable I/O, maybe run a BASIC or CHIP-8 interpreter.
Re: Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large (2016)
#9Wait - this thing runs Windows?! I figured it ran some kind of bytecode or toy OS. That's very neat that it runs a commercial operating system. I'd seen this post before but I'd never noticed the monitor with the Windows login screen.
Hah, of course not. The PC acts as a terminal/controller for this machine. Running Windows 7 on a 8 KHz CPU is impossible, even on a x86-compatible one. WinXP has been shown to run on an extremely underclocked 8 MHz Pentium CPU, booting in half an hour: https://winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini_en.htm
Re: Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large (2016)
#10In the same space of using discrete components instead of ICs , the Monster6502: https://monster6502.com/
Note: Well, there are some quad transistor array chips, but that seems still in the same spirit.