12 Dec
2001
12 Dec
'01
4:20 p.m.
Pat Finnegan wrote:
How would you talk to unibus without the 300 or more
wait states that
would make the 1G processor speed useless anyways? Unless you can hook
real IO devices up to the processor that are of *reasonable* speed, all
you have is a 'souped up adding machine' (to quote _Colossus:_
_The_Forbin_Project)
Yet most I/O of that era was still TTL, something you can
stick in the same FPGA as the processer.
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