479K views · Jun 23, 2016 · 5:15 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2016–2024
A short tour of the Megaprocessor, a microprocessor built at enormous scale from tens of thousands of discrete transistors. The builder shows what the machine is made of and where it now lives, at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, where visitors can play Tetris on it.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN commenters link it as the easy way to see the giant home-built CPU without hammering the author's website.
“A video tour is available on youtube, so we don't crush his website”HN comment, 2016
“A video tour is available on youtube, so we don't crush his website”
Video tour of the huge home-built computer
A video tour is available on youtube, so we don't crush his website: this video Spoiler alert: his Tetris skills are inversely proportional to his computer building skills.
“It's pretty neat seeing him change the clock speed”
Shows the clock speed being changed
The amazing thing about this is that you can't critique. I mean, you can say anything you want, but you can't stop it or change this guy's mind. :) It's pretty neat seeing him change the clock speed: this video
“it's built out of 40,000 discrete transistors”
Computer built from 40,000 discrete transistors
There's this one that goes one step beyond that, it's built out of 40,000 discrete transistors: this video EDIT: there's more information here: link
