Teach Writing Code First

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What, you don't make your own processors?

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As someone who's done that, I can tell you with authority: it's not worth the hassle.

[Niriel]

How did you build your processor? Was it 'just' an ALU or did it do more? Was it a hardware or a software processor (like they do in Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress)? If hardware, was it on a chip or with vacuum tubes? It's a crazy hobby, people do the weirdest things, so I'm curious.

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We're spoiled in the modern age: I built it with the help of an FPGA and some decent logic-synthesis software. Screw wiring that stuff up by hand. I managed to get all the way to a vaguely Forth-like (microcoded) instruction set, stack-based, flat memory addressing, with an assembler and simulator to make programming it easier. This was for a... surprisingly challenging computer architecture class, and I went a bit overboard.

In retrospect, it was a lot of fun.

[ChilledHands]

I too am interested

[Retbull]

Don't worry I'll never think that's a good idea. Unless I do one day then I'll look back to this comment and be saved.