Reply to post: Re: Completely and utterly bonkers

This whopping 16-bit computer processor is being built by hand, transistor by transistor

Phil O'Sophical Silver badge

Re: Completely and utterly bonkers

The RAM's turning out to be quite sizable. A square inch per bit !

Sounds like he's using static RAM, maybe he should have tried a dynamic RAM design? With decent capacitor sizes he wouldn't have too fast a refresh cycle...

I suppose core memory would be better still, if he's into knitting!

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