21 Aug
2001
21 Aug
'01
2:03 p.m.
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?
The University Of Maryland had something called ZMOB or
Z-MOB in the early 1980s, which (if memory serves) was
256 4MHz Z80s, several Megs of bank-switched memory, etc.
I never got to actually play with it or even see it,
only heard about it. Frank McConnell may know more.