[HerbManic]

With all the talk about developers being lazy and younger folk not understanding the technology they use, it is always great to see examples of core foundational work still being done. Makes the rest of that talk feel like fear mongering.

[wl]

I did an undergraduate electrical engineering degree some years ago. Building a CPU much like this one was the final project in our second digital design class. The difference here from the usual approach, as they point out, is that this is a gate-by-gate design you could assemble out of 74-series logic gates on a breadboard rather than the more common Verilog/VHDL designs that target FPGAs. Definitely a more tedious, time consuming approach, but I'm not convinced it's more conceptually difficult. By the time you're building a CPU, you've probably already built the component parts like the adders out of pure logic gates, anyway.

Not to say that this is easy, but I think you'd find that a whole lot more people are doing this kind of thing than you might think.

[throwaway2016a]

Every generation in history has said the younger generation is lazy. Didn't make it true when I was a young xenial / millennial and I suspect it's not true for Gen Z and Gen Alpha either.

[CorRupT9]

Actually I am lazy but I love to do what I do and see it through!