mad_ned

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I am Ned Utzig, a lifelong computer gamer, hacker, maker, and engineer. I grew up in a mainframe world of the 1970s, and in 1979 built my first home computer from a kit in the back of a magazine. I publish the Mad Ned Memo, a newsletter on computing history and trends: http://madned.substack.com
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Comment · 2 years ago
I'm still alive. But I've retired or at least taken an extended hiatus from my writing hobby, which in retrospect was probably a pandemic coping mechanism more than a lot of things lol.

I only came here because my in box is blowing up due to the traffic hacker news is driving to my site, and so then I see that this article is like #3 today. Not bad considering I don't really remember writing it!

Comment · 4 years ago
More Marshmallows!
Comment · 4 years ago
It's a rainy Saturday here, thought I'd give this one a second shot since the mood seemed right!
Comment · 4 years ago
This is a great resource for aspiring FPGA tinkerers like me. Thanks for sharing!
Comment · 4 years ago
Wish granted! @the.bessie.report on Instagram
Comment · 4 years ago
haha yes, excellent suggestions! I did think about ternary logic actually but I don't know of an FPGA that supports it. I considered creating like a primitive that burns 2 register bits to approximate it even, and just throw away the 4th state and pretend I have 3-state logic on all the layers above. but i have enough on my hands just trying to get the stupid timing working on a simple CPU. Im not actually a CPU designer so I dont really know what I'm doing lol.

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