Reply #146: What chip were you working on? [View All]

[TrogL]

(ignorant of spelling)

I'm a (fairly ignorant) student of chip design.

When I was at computer school, we had a student newspaper mostly full of gossip and stuff, but it was being done on my Macintosh so I let them do it on the condition that I got my own technical column on the last page. I decided to start from the ground up so I wrote several columns on chip design with a "special" when the 486 came out.

My audience seemed to be evenly split along two poles.

• "I have no idea what you're talking about."
  
• "It's the only thing worth reading in the newspaper."