21 Aug
2001
21 Aug
'01
6:27 a.m.
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Adrian Vickers wrote:
It's still possible to buy new Z80 CPUs (Ā£2.50 in
the UK); how many would
it take to build a pentium-IV class machine? :)
Cheers!
Ade.
This leads to one mind-boggling possibility. If one etches custom boards
with eight Z80s each, and pumps all eight each clock, and one takes
several thousand of these boards, wouldn't that be a rather interesting
MPP supercomputer? Would it be more or less money than one made with,
say, IBM POWER4s, or Alphas, or StrongARMs?
Peace... Sridhar