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		gradschool on June 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: /dev/zero has infinite electrons and /dev/null has... Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that you need NAND gates and a clock? Identifying a minimal set of primitive components necessary to implement a self-timed computer would be a more interesting problem.

raverbashing on June 4, 2012 [–]

You can build your clock using, guess what, NAND gates, one capacitor and one resistor (not a great clock source, still).

You also need a power source, so you can say the only digital component you need are NAND gates.

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