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 Mike Metz, Rimolak,1992 |
The last historical act of writing may well have been the
moment when, in the early seventies, Intel engineers laid out some dozen
square meters of blueprint paper (64 square meters, in the case of the
later 8086) in order to design the hardware architecture of their first
integrated micro-processor. This manual layout of two thousand transistors
and their interconnections was then miniaturized to the size of an actual
chip, and, by electro-optical machines, written into silicon layers. Finally,
this 4004 microprocessor found its place in the new desk calculators of
Intel's Japanese customer and our postmodern writing scene began.
From "There is no Software" by Friedrich Kittler |
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