AMD bit-slice machines

[Tony Duell]

> It was the text for a digital design class I took while an
> undergraduate EE at UDel.  Unfortunately, the class was so poorly run
> that very few people ever got to do any designing or playing with
> actual circuits.  Personally I consider UDel's EE major with the
> "Digital option" at the time (I graduated 1986) to be a miserable
> failure in teaching people how to actually *build* anything.  I still

I am told it's getting ever worse. EE, CS, and similar courses in UK 
universities may well involve not building anything. It's all done on 
simulators (cue ARD's rant about the misuse of simulators. Note I said 
'misuse'.  They are undoubtedly useful when used correctly, which is not 
as a replacment for building real hardware in an undergraduate course).

-tony