He’s set himself the task of creating an entire CPU solely from NAND gates, and he’s using 74F00 chips to give a hoped-for 1MIPS performance. His design has an 8-bit data bus but a 4-bit ...

One of the better retro historians out there on YouTube is the 8-Bit ... gates inside the CPU to the architecture of the kernel. It’ll run BASIC. The ‘requirement’ for this dream computer ...

Here’s the legend: at a computer trade ... limit that faced users of 8-bit computers, such as the Apple II+ and the Commodore 64 (see more coverage on our “Bill Gates Moves On” page).