15 Oct
2005
15 Oct
'05
12:21 p.m.
William Donzelli wrote:
Processor-memory and analog were the easiest (by far)
to implement years
ago, so that is why they were there, and the above weird technologies were
not. 30 years from now, some of those weird technologies may be quite
normal.
It is the memory wall that is the factor and now on chip delays, bring
us back
to about the tube era of computer design for delay and logic
functions. The week
point of almost all computer designs -- Random access memory is random
access
not serial as it is with all the pipelineing going on.
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org
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