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Believe this or not, doesn't matter. If you dig into electronics history, you'll find that the 'first' processor was the 4004 intel, followed by the 4040. That's bullshit. In 1972, I worked for a company that did aerospace R&D (I was in college then); some of the projects used a thing called the '1800CD chipset' which was classified secret. It was an 8/16 processor set, radiation hardened and fit for beyond the Van Allen. As has been said many times by many people, 'all is not as it seems to be'.
Hardware knowledge was 'old hat' by the mid-90s, it seems, and skilled engineers/techs were hard to come by. Oddly, in the late 90s, the best I worked with were in their 60s/70s OR a few Russian engineers that really knew their stuff. Kids that graduated in the early 90s (from UCSD) were pretty ignorant of the hardware.
Atari: I had one of those, used the 68000. Darned good computer. I had OS9-68k installed so I could program some of the military stuff I worked on at the time.
My Atari was first an 800 then an ST, I think it was the ST that had the 68000 and was a Motorola chip. Though I no longer keep up with the tech. I enjoyed leaning about how it worked. They even taught Boolean Algebra, and Greyscale. A lot more tech. than vocational training required. I took several college level programming courses and enjoyed them, but I was never an Idea man, just wrote code the teacher requested.
After no job came from it I slowly lost interest in keeping up, but if I have a computer problem that warrants being not lazy I can typically dig around and fix it. Software programs have so many features that you can get lost in the menus and I feel sorry for people just starting out.
Yup. Understood. These days, I kinda prefer to piddle around with my ARs and such, and keep my place running. Working on going off grid with some tech that is beyond the Qm crap. People just accept what they're told, mostly, without thinking. It IS possible to capture energy in overunity. Done it in several different configurations. The physics is different, and people refuse to understand it.
Lots of ways to get energy for sure... Solar will have a big impact when they can figure out how to get it from space. The temperature differential between the surface and underground. Hydraulic plates that depress a small amount when driven over. Lots of possible things. I think using a wide variety of sources is a good idea. I'm not fond of Nuke, but that is a short term solution.