Wait until you try to do it using an FPGA
Or even better just using a bunch of gates and hard wiring it in.
Learning how to do it from scratch makes me more amazed we got to the point we have with computing hardware
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You reminded me of this guy explaining how to build an 8bit computer from scratch on breadboards.
I highly recommend. He's one hell of a teacher. No bullshit, he took his time and dedicated months into documenting it in video form.
Brought back PTSD from when I took a mainframe assembler course a few semesters ago, I still get anxiety if I see that professors name in my student email inbox.
Wait LOL! I actually know those people in the photo irl. This is a photo from Brookhaven National Laboratory, isn’t it?