In 1979 I went to the People's Republic of China with a delegation and a Data General Nova 1200 computer. In Shanghai, I was proudly shown a Chinese clone of the Nova, but the boards were huge (much bigger than the Nova's 15" x 15").
The Chinese had taken all the MSI in the 'puter and broken it down to simple SSI ICs of Chinese manufacture and built a machine functionally identical with the Nova. In fact, they ran a DG diagnostic for me called NMORT, the multi-programming reliability test. They also had a hard disk about the size of a small washing machine. It was really quite impressive. The whole setup was in a room, maybe 30' square, with a polished wood floor and several techs in white coats. All in all, an interesting experience. Best, -John ============= > Hi > > Yes indeed. > > A lot of this was worked out a very long time ago. Most of what you see on > the net these days is simply an IC circuit broken out into a bunch of > discrete parts. IC's have different issues than discretes. > > Bob _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
