Does it run Linux... I mean minix.. I mean... Oh forget it!

Does it run Windows Vista? Did M$ appove of this? If not then its ILLEGAL! 0-| >:-(

Beowulf Cluster

the open-source Minix OS [CC] -- a cousin of Linux

That must be the same sense in which Dick Cheney is "a cousin of" Barak Obama.

I would really want to do this! I'm sure that the thing doesn't have an ethernet device, but I wonder if a terminal server device would do? Then I'd run some sort of web services on it. :) That'd be some true geek value.

Did he use appropriate era memory, you know the ol' 1k chips, meaning 1024 by 1?

Core memory? Hey kids, instead of stringing popcorn this holiday, we are gonna do memory cores!

Cool none the less.

OBVIOUSLY the guy stole the code for Minix from SCO. Lawsuit at 11.

Does it run Windows Vista? Did M$ appove of this? If not then its ILLEGAL! 0-| >:-(

      More importantly, can you watch porn with it?

If you're implying that Barack Obama was originally conceived and developed as a freer alternative to Dick Cheney, then yes, that's right.

From the site about the homemade processor:

Except when I'm working on it, Magic-1 is connected to the net. It serves web pages at http://www.magic-1.org [magic-1.org]

Not any more!

(I know, I know, some of you might be thinking..."How could you be so cruel as to post a link on /. to a server that's only running at 4 MHz? Have you no mercy?" My response: Nope.)

Here is your kit:
Part 1 [jameco.com]
Part 2 [jameco.com]

Good Luck :)

Of course, Almost forgot...

Debugging Tool [gunbroker.com]

...in this [linuxdevices.com] picture translate to "I WILL NEVER GET LAID" in binary.

Hey when that guy signed up for the ass-kicking contest he knew damn well he only had one leg !

I can just picture Woz now saying "The force is strong in this one. "

Where is the "+1 Deliciously Paraniod" moderation option when you need it.

He's just a fucking script kiddie as far as I'm concerned. Real men mine and smelt their own metal. Consumer metal bought over the counter just doesn't offer enough customisability if you really want to do a project like this right.

Most current 'seniors' would hold a wire-wrap gun wrong and injure themselves.

Or even worse, they'd wire the multihop nets in a daisy chain pattern.

It's the Homebrew Computer Club all over again. Back to the 80's.

Wonder if he'll warrant a Slashdot story in about 15 years when he homebrews a 3D graphics card?

Sorry, the fun flag has not yet been implemented on this processor. Therefore it's not yet possible to determine which jokes are funny. While there already exists a jnf instruction (jump if not funny), it currently does nothing. We do have code like the following, though:

; post joke if funny
    test joke
    jnf .nopost
    call post_joke
.nopost:
; continue reading slashdot

2Gb RAM, 3GHz CPU, 20Gb of disk - Windows Vista: 1
4Mb RAM, 4MHz CPU, 500Kb ram disk - Minix: ?

 

Even more importantly, can't you guys realise that none of these jokes are funny?

Hmm. If you understand that humor is subjective, you will realize that what you've just posted is stupid. Alternately, if you think humor is objective, well, then you're just plain stupid.

Your post could be made in a way that doesn't make you look stupid. You could say, "Don't you people realize that I don't find any of these jokes funny?" Of course, posted that way, it makes it rather clear what a self-centered individual you are. Why would they refrain from posting things some people do find funny, just because you don't? And why can't you just skip over content that doesn't interest you, rather than complain anytime anything is posted that you didn't care to see? Does it really bother you that much that you're not the center of the universe?

Feh, I'll wait for the movie...

So we're trying to find enough food and water to survive, and you're sat in the back shed trying to jemmy together a soldering iron and some transistors? I'll be delighted to find you're on my team.

In the land of Unix (and parts of the US) the family tree looks like a wreath.
 

But does it support the TCP Evil Bit?

Nice job, but if he was a real "man" he wouldn't have used advanced circuits like TTL. He should have wired it using 2N3904 and 2N3906 transistors using RTL (Resistor/Transistor/Logic) instead of taking the easy way out and using that new-fangled TTL stuff. And when he gets real serious, he can start with triode tubes (ala Eniac / Multics), then he will really have demonstrated his manhood (or lunacy).

Yeah, well, real hackers build themselves.

It says NOTHING about his sexual activity.

Maybe not ... but it does indicate that, unlike the typical Slashdotter (parent's basement and all) this man is not only capable of reproducing but has done so. Regardless of what you think of his homebrew processor, he should get points for successfully assembling offspring.