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Re: CPU architecture (was Re: Mercury)

From John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: CPU architecture (was Re: Mercury)
Date 2026-04-02 15:31 -0700
Organization A place where nothing fits quite right
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On Thu, 2 Apr 2026 14:56:18 -0400
c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

> Now how do you wire up transistors to mechanically DO all that  ? If
> I send you a giant box of 2n222a's and a giant perf-board could you
> just start doing all the wiring ?
> 
> Some time back I did see an article about a guy who built a Z-80 from
> discrete components - took up three walls of his house. I guess HE
> knew how to put it all together, but .......

Yeah, not being an EE that's where my understanding starts to break
down. I know how flip-flops and latches work on a logic level, and I
have a rough knowledge of how transistors work, but the exact nitty-
gritty of digital circuity sits right at the intersection of the two
domains and is all tied up in both. Bit like hearing my medically-
inclined family members talk about biochemistry...

Oneathesedays I'll sit down and study it properly, but I'm still
getting my head around *analog* circuits o_O

> And NOBODY has a plan for all the obsolete people pushed out by AI
> solutions.

"Has no plan" *is* the plan. The whole enterprise is transparently
about the C-suite getting to obsolete knowledge workers the way they
decimated skilled labor via industrial automation - but the C-suite
guys are too dumb and too high on their own supply to realize that they
fell for a con. What's being sold as "AI" will *never* do half of what
they've been claiming it will Real Soon Now, and the money men are just
about out of patience waiting for their promised payoff.

It *is* gonna be ugly - hell, it already is, since Management has been
jumping the gun from the get-go, using "AI" to justify mass layoffs no
matter how patently unsuitable chatbots are as a replacement for the
workers - but in the long term...it's not gonna work.

(It's not impossible, of course, that someone will eventually crack
*true* artificial intelligence - but if and when that happens, it's not
gonna come from *these* clowns. Glorified Markov chains are the deadest
of ends.)

They're already running outta money and scrambling to disguise it, and
when the LLM industry and their services are gone companies are still
gonna need stuff *done.* This'll all have ultimately been for nothing -
just a massive, stupid waste inflicted by the tech industry upon itself
for the sake of spiting the people who make it function :/

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