Oh also rule of thumb when talking about computer stuff when I say "not possible" oh yes it's possible. Anything is possible, whether it takes 30 years or some crazy exploits (and I mean crazy) there is a way. What I mean by not possible is "not my current path of interest/not currently feasible by me"
I think in eventually I am going to buy an old 386 processor because it's modern enough where the basics of the system is still used (32 bit x86 architecture) and it doesn't have too many pins.
With modern hardware it's entirely possible to make a breakout board for the 386 and it's ram (ram and cpu need to have length matched PCB traces due to really high frequency) because around the 90s CPUs started getting so fast that they switched from static logic to something more transient, meaning that the signals change so fast there is no time to wait for something to physically store so to speak, and basically a cpu that runs in ghz cannot be stopped without loosing all of its data (ways around this but also they have fucking like 900 pins, although most are for power still wayyy too much) but making a breakout board/development board (or buying one probably not making one im not that capable yet) will allow me to study the boot process and understand what's happening on a hardware level during operation. This will give amazing insights into what's happening on the 386s modern 64 bit cousins and give me a very good foundational and operational understanding to be used in future problem solving.
Oh btw it's crazy the 386 came out in 1985 and featured 32 bit architecture I thought 32 bit was mid 90s like what my mental map of modern computing just completely shifted back a decade, I was thinking like that was intel 8088 and ibm 5150 was the mid 80s but like im completely wrong. Although I did previously know that windows 1.0 came out in 1985, by that time that means DOS and similar OSes were no longer in their infancy. But 32 bits? I thought 16 bit was normal until like the mid 90s what
With modern hardware it's entirely possible to make a breakout board for the 386 and it's ram (ram and cpu need to have length matched PCB traces due to really high frequency) because around the 90s CPUs started getting so fast that they switched from static logic to something more transient, meaning that the signals change so fast there is no time to wait for something to physically store so to speak, and basically a cpu that runs in ghz cannot be stopped without loosing all of its data (ways around this but also they have fucking like 900 pins, although most are for power still wayyy too much) but making a breakout board/development board (or buying one probably not making one im not that capable yet) will allow me to study the boot process and understand what's happening on a hardware level during operation. This will give amazing insights into what's happening on the 386s modern 64 bit cousins and give me a very good foundational and operational understanding to be used in future problem solving.
Oh btw it's crazy the 386 came out in 1985 and featured 32 bit architecture I thought 32 bit was mid 90s like what my mental map of modern computing just completely shifted back a decade, I was thinking like that was intel 8088 and ibm 5150 was the mid 80s but like im completely wrong. Although I did previously know that windows 1.0 came out in 1985, by that time that means DOS and similar OSes were no longer in their infancy. But 32 bits? I thought 16 bit was normal until like the mid 90s what
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Im reading up on this because I got interested about how long it will be until fully articulate prosthetics become a thing
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I got interested because I saw one of those shitty Chinese gimmick robots being charged and then I thought because of how impressive fitting the motors necessary to do such movement is like it would totally make for a great prosthetic arm combined with something like the neural interfaces that paralyzed people used to control a mouse