andrel wrote:

> Still more complicated than my own 1984 design. ;)

Anybody else attempted this crazy task?

> If you do it to give you new insights into how to make a CPU than that 
> might qualify you as a scientist. The border is vague, possibly 
> something along the line of how deep the insight is, how many people 
> already know it (if nobody than you are definitely in) and if you are 
> able to pass on that knowledge. If you are paid to do so that also 
> helps, but you aren't.

Depends on your definitions. I would say that anybody who follows the 
scientific method is a scientist, regardless of whether what they 
discover is actually new. But then, if you mean a *professional* 
scientist, or even a *reputable* one, that's another matter... ;-)

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