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A quick guide to computer components (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The CPU should probably be replaced by a ALU in the image. But it's kinda hard to get a good shot of the ALU.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

You could use like a 74181, or one of the vintage bitslice ALUs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

There are numerous people who have made an ALU in Minecraft Redstone. Of course, in Factorio too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I'm one of those! Or kind of at least... I build a computer (and ofc one of the parts was a alu) that sort of workt in MC pocket edition. The only longer program I think i ran on it generated the Fibonacci sequence. It took it like an hour to do the first few!

But mine was definitely not one of the fancier ones. I'm not even sure wether it did any logic or not, it might just have been a AU