Ramsey Nasser on Nostr: I wonder what is the smallest number of transistors you can get away with while ...
I wonder what is the smallest number of transistors you can get away with while implementing a programmable, turing complete microprocessor. if you stripped out optimizations like a cache and if the instruction set was was a single universal instruction like subleq so you skip instruction decoding circuitry, how far down can you get the transistor count? hundreds? dozens...?
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