At 07:36 AM 3/2/99 -0800, you wrote:
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? It's an ordinary 6 lines. ???
>Eh? My first job after finishing my DPhil...
Your what?
>was microcoding a AMD-2900 series bit slice machine which had a 25ns
>(40MHz) clock. That was in 1983 and it was far from rocket science
>then.
A 40MHz chip in 1983? How come 40MHz personal computers weren't available
until the early 1990s? Was someone keeping the technology out of the hands
of the "peasants"??
>The good old 1970's Cray-1 had a 9ns (110MHz) clock if I remember correctly.
That's a supercomputer. Those don't count. :-)
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