Alright, I'll rephrase my statement... TWO guys in their bedrooms built a better CPU than Motorola's entire CPU dev team in the whole 80's...
Probably most people are able now to make a car in their garage that performs better than the early Ford (or Citroen deux-chevaux for the Europeans) in their garage. This does not mean that the original work was not a magnificent peace of engineering.
greets,
Staf.
