asciilifeform: jurov: afaik transmeta microcode magic wasn't actually published. possibly (anyone who knows the truth - correct if wrong) - because it was not actually suited for anything but x86.
asciilifeform: generally learn how to stop drifting aimlessly around << this is particularly funny to me, as i 'knew exactly what to do' before interned as a kid, and then began to doubt...
asciilifeform: how to transition from grade 4 to grade 5 derpatronic engineer ?
asciilifeform: decimation: you can, but you get odd behaviour - considering that you aren't pumping a fluid in the usual sense
asciilifeform: problem with peristaltic is that it operates in bursts (one 'squeeze') which always end up too long.
asciilifeform: it would smash the solder balls << nope. the standard methods (auger and piston) actually do. and this limits the life of the apparatus (smashed balls end up adhering to the inside bores.)
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: Feel like I working in a chinese sweatshop for the last half hour << i am glad to learn that i am not the only one who ended up constructing his own personal chinese sweatshop to toil in...
asciilifeform: (then i'd have to explain how this doesn't work, sadly, and for nonobvious reason)
asciilifeform: i keep waiting for someone here to suggest 'use peristaltic pump'
asciilifeform: 'positive displacement' here means, easily, that no more turd can emerge from the needle than is actually inside the needle
asciilifeform: 2) can be had. really nice things exist, are used in 'adult' factories - but cannot be had.
asciilifeform: 'better' in the sense that 1) it easily beats the controlled-air-puff dispenser i was using previously, which is almost unusably inaccurate and,
asciilifeform just emerged from ~4 hrs of lathe work, does in fact appreciate the difficulty of apparently simple things. but the extant computing stack - is still a pile of shit.
asciilifeform: the only thing intrinsically necessary is a compact way to tell the photomask printer what to do...
asciilifeform: decimation: netlist << nope. the actual masks, ready for tapeout.
asciilifeform: decimation: does the vlsi design exist (presumably in vhdl) << afaik it was lisp from day 1 (mit cadr was hand-drawn, after that - 'ourobourus'-like tail-eating iterative design...)
asciilifeform: mats_cd03: practical-file-system-design << old favourite of mine.
asciilifeform: decimation: i asked dan schmidt whether he'd sell it - he answered that he won't, it's in some kind of eternal legal limbo (sub-licensed somewhere, or the like.)
asciilifeform: decimation: vlsi design software << yes, it was. and they actually... used it.
asciilifeform grumbles at having purchased a 'dial indicator' instead of a 'dial test indicator' - entirely different animals
asciilifeform: 'soviet informatik' terminology like цикл (cycle) for 'loop' is, afaik, only remembered by the older folks who came of age on '70s-'80s books
asciilifeform: then again, the blather of, e.g., a russian programmer, probably sounds rather similar to this - to english speaker
