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Re:Ask HN: Anyone doing some absurd stuff after getting laid... by generalizations on Sunday January 22, 2023 @01:49PM (#34480844)
A 250 person organization assembling semi-off-the-shelf components and gluing mostly-preexisting software together is a very different proposition than 20-50 people building a modern CPU from scratch. That's an order of magnitude more complexity than the steam deck, and an order of magnitude fewer people.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone doing some absurd stuff after getting laid... by ghaff on Sunday January 22, 2023 @01:57PM (#34480942)
Right. It means there's a lot of things that don't get created--or companies cooperate in some sort of fairly tightly coupled network that doesn't look that different from one big company. (But probably less efficient if you follow Coase.)
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone doing some absurd stuff after getting laid... by andai on Monday January 23, 2023 @11:50AM (#34491348)
How many people designed the CPUs we use? I read a few days ago that due to deadline pressure, a single man did most of the work on (I believe it was) the 8080. But that's obviously a "trivial" design compared to the monsters we have today.
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