24 Apr
2001
24 Apr
'01
4:06 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
There was also bipolar memory (also made from
integrated circuits, but
ones using bipolar transistors, not MOSFETs). This was much lower density
and higher power consumption than MOS, but it was also faster (IIRC a
PDP11/45 with bipolar memory was about twice as fast as one using MOS
memory).
Oh just what I would need a Manic Depressive computer :-)
Of course modern MOS memory is a lot faster than that
old bipolar memory...
Ok well, How about "Older" and all my valves are in my truck... all 16
of them :-)
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
some of my old audio equipment that boasts of its
transistors :-)
'Old' audio equipment uses valves...