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From: hawley@icot32.icot.or.jp (David John Hawley)
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Subject: Re: Qualified? or Dreaming?
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Date: 18 Jul 90 03:38:28 GMT
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In article <790S02pfb89A01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> greg@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Greg Bullough) writes:
>At Forkover University, every student has to build his/her own
>system from scratch. They have to actually mine and process the
>silicon themselves. Then they design the circuits, do the layout
...

One of the more interesting "warm-up" exercises given in my OpSys class
was the problem of bringing up your-favourite-dream-system given the
stuck-on-a-desert-island-with-a-big-box-of-hardware-and-a-nuclear-power-plant-
but-absolutely-no-software.

Oh I forgot to say, it was a 'paper' exercise :-)
Further optional courses did give you the opportunity of developing
bits and pieces of the same.