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by Cyph0n 3158 days ago
You might actually be right. When I read this:

> He wrote his own chip design software and analog simulator

I immediately thought of a modern toolchain. Had I known that this was done decades ago, I might have reacted differently.

Nonetheless, even decades ago, both Cadence and Synopsys likely had pretty advanced tools under development. I may be mistaken though.

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Moore mentioned these in passing at the end if the link https://colorforth.github.io/1percent.html He was stressing the solution fits the problem. Not a solution which can cover/contain the problem
Heh, I remember running Solo 2030 on Motorola-based Sun workstations almost 25 years ago...