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Comment by to11mtm

2 months ago

A 6502 can easily power a robot to bend metal and other objects. You can bootstrap everything else from there.

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trollbridge  2 months ago

So can a machine built entirely from discrete components. A VAX 11/780 had no microprocessor at all. Just a CPU built out of components.

  • nxobject  2 months ago

    Not quite - the VAX-11/780 relied on what was essentially a LSI PDP-11/03 as a general purpose glue processor (the “console interface board”) for the CPU initialization sequence, console and floppy I/O, and other assorted tasks.