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NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates

186 points · 101 comments · rossant

  1. Nurysso · · focus · HN ↗
    OHH my god this is soo awesome, I wonder how people build such things.
    1. btilly · · focus · HN ↗
      It has long been known that you can build any gate from NAND gates.

      So you can take an existing model of a computer, turn everything that isn't a NAND into a collection of NAND gates, then run software for the original computer.

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