by CBFalconer <cbfalconer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Oct 29, 2007 at 12:08 AM
problems@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
> First an analogy:
>
> when first small scale integrated circuits came on the market
> experimenters built digital circuits by busking since they
> didn't yet know how to 'read the score'. One used an intuitive
> designing method to chose various combinations and
> configuratins of gates to acheive the desired result.
>
> Later, simple tools like Karnaugh maps and equations to get
> cannonical forms ...etc. were use to replace the art with some
> science.
FYI Karnaugh maps, logical equations etc. were in common use back
in the 1930s, and date back much earlier than that. Telephone
systems, using relays, required lots of digital knowledge.
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