It looks like it would take about 20 chips. [1] [1] - https://eater.net/vga | Hacker News

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		snarfy on March 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Build an 8-bit home computer with 5 chips It looks like it would take about 20 chips. [1] [1] - https://eater.net/vga

rzzzt on March 21, 2020 [–]

Not an unreasonable choice, but it has to be noted that home computers of the era already used LSI/VLSI dedicated ICs for this purpose, condensing the functionality of these 20 chips into a single package.

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