Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips

Re:Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips by x0 on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:51PM (#23765110)

Isn't it a miracle! It's fantastic, I've been reading old computer magazines from the 80s and 90s on archive.org, and the costs to set yourself up back then were just astronomical. I remember seeing C compilers priced at $300, or even more.

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Re:Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips by noir_lord on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @07:14PM (#23765316)

I’m just 40, I started programming in 87, got serious around 93, I remember getting my hands on a copy of turbo pascal from a family friend - not expensive but was for a kid and it was amazing.

Now I grumble if it’s a pain to install a massive open source tool chain for free and these days it’s rarely painful.

I should stop and appreciate that more once in a while.

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Re:Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips by lowtolerance on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @07:47PM (#23765568)

I think a full copy of Visual Studio in the late 90s was like $700-800.

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