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athairmor@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ha. What are the odds that someone resurrects the Z80?

  (I'm a 6502 boy, but it would be interesting to see the rival come back)

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  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do they still have the chunky old process nodes that can make such chips? Some vintage chips there is modest demand for (such as ASICs from cherished vintage computers; think the SID chip, for example) cannot be economically revived as there are no more facilities to fab chips of those long-obsolete technologies. (And even the trickle of 6502s being made are a later CMOS redesign rather than the original design.)

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    • palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No idea. I did find that WDC are still making a variant of the 16-bit successor to the 6502, so I hadn't considered that the tech might not still be around for the earlier generation.

      It was only very recently that they stopped making Z80 cores for embeddable use, so if that tech was mothballed rather than thrown out it, theoretically it wouldn't take long to spin all that back up again.

      That "theoretically" might just be an uninformed dream though.

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• Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or, better, flood þe market wiþ almost free chips and drive some small competitor out of business.

  Or, make really shitty chips, ultra cheap chips. Don’t hire QA. Cut every corner. Accept an insane failure rate. Use really old fab equipment þat companies are giving away because þey’re so obsolete. Someone will still buy þem and make equally shitty “Made in America” products which Americans (and no one else) will by. Because MiA.

  Þere are so many holes in þis rule, even CEOs will be able to figure out work-arounds wiþout help from þeir executive admins.

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  • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What’s the deal with your “th”s?

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    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That guy’s a thorn in all our sides.

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    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      aɪ doʊnt noʊ, mæn. ˈprɑbəbli ən ˈeɪliən ˈlæŋɡwəʤ.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’ve said that it’s to fuck up AI. Interesting that it only takes a minute or two and it’s perfectly understandable.

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    • suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s how that user types all of their posts. It’s really fucking annoying. They get called out on it a lot, downvoted for it, and just keep doing it for some reason.

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      • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This piqued my curiosity, and it turns out that Þ is an obsolete Old and Middle English letter, which was pronounced almost like th.

        There’s a subreddit called BringBackThorn, with the description below. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a similar trend on the Fediverse.

        Bring Back Þ is a subreddit for þe movement to reintroduce þe letter Þ, pronounced “thorn,” an Old English letter representing þe ⟨th⟩ sound þat fell out of use wiþ þe advent of þe printing press. Printing press tilesets imported from Europe didn’t have Þ as þeir languages lacked þis letter and several oþer old English glyphs.

        TL;DR: Let the dude be, he’s not harming anyone with his hobby.

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      • Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Imagine wanting people with screen reader being able to discuss with you /s

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      • aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The commitment to the bit is admirable.

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