So Noam and I had this insight that if we want our students to understand how computers work, and understand it in the marrow of their bones, then perhaps the best way to go about it is to have them build a complete, working, general-purpose, useful computer, hardware and software, from the ground up, from first principles.
Por eso Noam y yo pensamos que si queríamos que los estudiantes entendieran el funcionamiento de las máquinas, que lo entendieran cabalmente, entonces quizá la mejor manera de hacerlo era hacerles construir hardware y software completo, que funcionara con un uso general, útil, desde cero, con los principios fundamentales.