Comment by Animats

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Back in 2020, someone built a working model of a Cray-1.[1] Not only is it instruction compatible, using an FPGA, it's built into a 1/10 scale case that looks like a Cray-1.

The Cray-1 is really a very simple machine, with a small instruction set. It just has 64 of everything. It was built from discrete components, almost the last CPU built that way.

[1] https://www.cpushack.com/2010/09/15/homebrew-cray-1a-1976-vs...