5 Oct
2007
5 Oct
'07
10:42 a.m.
Tim Shoppa wrote:
KL10 was 100 series 10K ECL technology, typically 3 to
4 ns propgation
delay. A lot easier to build large systems with than say 74F00 stuff but
not a whole lot faster.
I guess we need a 36 bit computer built with 74Fxx. :)
Responsiveness of a computer system depends on a lot
more than the
speed of the semiconductors used to build it. Plenty of modern examples
of how to make fast silicon seem slow are coming out of Redmond I
notice :-).
But how fast is the silicon anyhow? You read the fine print after all
the cache has loaded.
Tim.
Could the PDP-10 instruction set have been
simplified for a faster
machine. Mind you I think you would still be stuck with 18bit address
because of LISP and having two addresses in one word.
Ben.