9 Nov
2005
9 Nov
'05
8:19 a.m.
woodelf wrote:
Stegeman, Henk HJ SITI-ITIBHW5 wrote:
They can't calculate the difference between 926kB and 926MB though -
look at those filesizes! Either they've got that wrong or NTL have
given me one hell of an upgrade overnight.
Gordon.
The reason is the effort it takes......
Ask anybody who actually made a CPU ( I myself did a 12 bit
TTL based, single address single accumulator machine).
The real effort is actually building and debugging the unit.
There is only so much time you have....
Well everybody likes 12 bits...
http://www.cray-cyber.org/hardware/Hardware.php Forget TTL, go tubes! I've always thought that 24 bits is a nice
word size for a small
computer.
Much too big to actually build in TTL.