Celebrating 'First Silicon'
Dee and some of the other members of the Bayesian Nakama are celebrating the construction of the first full-fledged computer built entirely out of local, asteroidal resources and processes. The chip design they're using, the 6502, is roughly a century old - but its 3510 transistors can all be laid out manually, and then the design shrank through the best analog photolithography techniques they've been able to figure out so far. A CPU working at a single megahertz may not seem like much - but it's better than the spyware-laden hardware from Earth, or the massively expensive chips manufactured on and imported from Luna, or nothing at all. And now that they've achieved this, they've made a real stride towards bootstrapping themselves to complete technological independence.
From left to right: Zot (anteater), Dee (rat in taur prosthetic), Bongo (wolf), Quux (goat), Bar (donkey).
Drawn by Seth Triggs ( https://www.furaffinity.net/user/sethtriggs ).
From left to right: Zot (anteater), Dee (rat in taur prosthetic), Bongo (wolf), Quux (goat), Bar (donkey).
Drawn by Seth Triggs ( https://www.furaffinity.net/user/sethtriggs ).
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It sounds like there's a lot of neat back story and setting that I might really need to get around to reading about though. Hearing more about those alternative CPU manufacturers could be quite interesting.