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I wonder....
If it's possible to have a worldwide computer built after say intel's plans for the 8088 chip. I mean, if all that's in there are switches, then we SHOULD be able to get one nice juicy power supply, get like Florida to act as the power supply (cuz the Sun NEVER stops there). And maybe
get Colorado to be the display (it's square, so it would work well). We could have a national election to see who gets to be the CPU. I mean really - we SHOULD be able to get the whole thing going. Hell, they implemented RFC2459, why the hell not implement the 8088 chip as a human model!
Cage Jumping
http://www.cyber-sh...pat.org/relax/cage/
Human Interface to tmxxine [tmxxine, Oct 04 2004]
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This has got to be the most well thought out invention ever. Colorado as the Display, sheer genius. |
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(I like the US usage of "World" here. [boncne] says "Wordwide computer" and then only mentions places in the US... and "we should have a national election"...) |
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Like the world-series baseball. |
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Croissant, with the reservation cited by [hippo], but why stop at the 8088? |
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Re: 8088: I'm sure there are more than 29,000 'switches' in the 'world' (aka USA). |
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Wow! I hadn't realized my own usage of the word "world" here. Hmm. I'm honestly disturbed that I did that. |
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Quick - where is it? - Ah, this old one of Ronald Reagan will do - or maybe there are some better ones in the bag of Hallowe'en stuff... |
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You're lucky I didn't poke you. |
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And I'll provide the assembly instructions. |
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'bone for false advertising. |
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Give the kid a break! It's not his fault: Americans are taught to think their country is the center of the universe... |
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To me, it's not an excuse. The rest of us, not-american bastards, should be given some credit. |
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[boncne] by the way, what kind of profile is that?. I don't get it. |
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you're converting the 8088 processor into a mechanical babbage type computer, with human size switches, or is it humans as switches? |
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its an art concept. impractical but it could be beautiful |
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