Booch adds: NAND and NOR are universal gates built from ~a dozen transistors
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-10-17
Following his quip that AI is just NAND gates, Grady Booch added a primer: NAND and NOR are universal logic gates, each typically built from about a dozen transistors, and their simplicity and regularity are why digital devices contain billions of them.
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