On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 09:50 pm, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 07:12 pm, Gregory Ewing wrote: > >> Grant Edwards wrote: >>> Alternatively, you should design an instruction set and implement it >>> using microcode and AM2900 bit-slice processors. >> >> AMD2900? That's cheating! You should design and build your >> own logic gates. After refining the silicon to make the >> transistors first, of course. > > Silicon? You had it easy. > > In my day all we had was hydrogen and helium, we had to make our own silicon > using fusion.
Of course, when I say all we had was hydrogen and helium, I mean we had to make it first from a quark/gluon plasma. Won't catch us using somebody else's substandard silicon. Probably use the wrong electron charge and all. Of course you don't get quark/gluon plasma like that any more. You can't get the magnetic monopoles. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
