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Building a 4-Bit Computer: Instruction Trade-offs

If you are limiting yourself to only 16 instructions, which ones should you chose, and how do you manage without the ones that fall by the wayside? In my previous column on our project to build a ...
Hackaday

Imagining The CPS-1: An Early 70s 4-bit Microcomputer From Canada

CPS-1: Imagining An Early 70s 4-bit Microcomputer. The CPS-1 was the first Canadian microprocessor-based computer. It was built by ...
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4-Bit Computer Subsystem Boards Are Fun and Educational

The founder of ARITH-MATIC spent a lot of time evolving these boards using a user-centric design process to create kits that are immediately intuitive, super-tactile, and fun to build. As you are ...
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4-bit Single Board Computer Based On The Intel 4004 Microprocessor

Scott Baker] is at it again and this time he has built a 4-bit single board computer based on the Intel 4004 microprocessor. In the board design [Scott] covers the CPU (both the Intel 4004 and ...
MIT Technology Review

Tiny four-bit computers are now all you need to train AI

Eight bits make up a byte, so four bits are called a nibble. Computer engineers have a funny sense of humor. Ms Tech | Wellcome Collection Deep learning is an inefficient energy hog. It requires ...