from the when-the-industry-had-a-sense-of-humor dept.
https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/index.html
Ever wonder what's lurking within the dark corners, nooks and crannies of your computer? Is some gremlin responsible for all those crashes---you know, the ones that happen when you are trying to save that critical document you've been working on so diligently for the past three hours? We wondered too, so we took a look to see what we could find. And guess what? When we put the computer chips under the microscope we found some very interesting creatures hiding there.
Our search has led to a new collection of photomicrographs (photographs taken through a microscope) featuring many of the interesting silicon creatures and other doodling scribbled onto integrated circuits by engineers when they were designing computer chip masks. The tiny creatures are far too small to be seen with the naked eye, so we have provided high-magnification photomicrographs to share these mysterious wonders with our visitors. Engineers designing modern computer chips have a very rich sense of humor as you will discover when you visit our Silicon Creatures Gallery that we keep corralled in the Silicon Zoo. We hope you enjoy your adventure!
(Score: 3, Informative) by AnonTechie on Sunday April 24 2022, @09:53AM
Most of the photographs are fascinating and seem like works of art ...
Albert Einstein - "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 24 2022, @03:00PM (1 child)
Of course then we will wonder what other hidden functional undocumented treasures await.
If they can make a work of art, they can make a hidden circuit.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by turgid on Sunday April 24 2022, @09:08PM
The Motorola 6809 could apparently, via an undocumented op code, execute an infinite loop in a single clock cycle, unprecedented in the pre-RISC days and certainly for an 8-bit CPU.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 24 2022, @03:35PM (3 children)
I don't have time to wade through that wall of text website.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 24 2022, @04:44PM
I agree. The website is a mess.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 24 2022, @07:54PM (1 child)
clicking links is _so_ tiring.
(Score: 3, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Monday April 25 2022, @03:18PM
Oh I thought he was talking about Soylent!
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 24 2022, @08:54PM
I remember that happened a lot with Windows. Hasn't been a problem since switching to Linux.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 25 2022, @12:42AM
Now I'm going to opening chips, and trying to find artwork on them!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.