TTL homebrew CPUs

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Tue Jul 10 13:24:03 CDT 2007


On Jul 10, 2007, at 1:04 PM, woodelf wrote:
> Does this mean that if we reduce the number of transistors
> we can go faster? Let see a PDP 8/Z(1) with current technology
> would be? :)  I think the problem is computer design rather
> than the chip design -- You don't have random access memory
> any more & salesmen push clock speed rather than a usefull
> measure of computing power.

   Nah, even Intel has abandoned the "more megga-hurts!" marketing  
scheme.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL





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