HPs unit cost for 68000s would have been very, very good. Add up all the instruments and laser printers (I think the controllers where parcs ?), then add the 1000's of man hours of software experience you can imagine why a 68K.
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Doug Ronald <d...@dougronald.com> wrote: > I have sort of a dumb question about the Lucent KS-24361 RFTGs. Why do you > suppose there is so much compute power in these units? They have the Xilinx > FPGA, and the 68000 CPU just to discipline a 5 MHz oscillator? There must be > more going on with these devices than meets my eyes. > > Thanks anyone, > -Doug W6DSR > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
