19 Dec
2006
19 Dec
'06
4:57 p.m.
On 19 Dec 2006 at 16:26, Billy Pettit wrote:
Didn't Seymour Cray do this on one of his later
machines? The Cray 2?
Seems like it was a 5 input And gate.
Before that, Neil Lincoln was talking up and showing his "Chiclet"
apprach for the Cyber 203. The basic idea was that the whole shebang
was to be built out of a selection of ICs that could be held in a box
of Chiclets chewing gum (IIRC, something like 13 different types).
As a test vehicle, I believe he did an implementation of a 6400 CPU.
Cheers,
Chuck