19 Dec
2006
19 Dec
'06
8:22 p.m.
In article <e1d20d630612191943r673776e4qa28990a829b95162 at mail.gmail.com>,
"William Donzelli" <wdonzelli at gmail.com> writes:
To me it seems like a smart idea. Concentrate on a few chips so that
you can get the manufacturing yields up, the cost per component down,
and fewer parts to stock and manage from manufacturing all the way
through repair servicing. There are lots of overhead factors that
increase with the number of kinds of parts you have.
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Didn't
Seymour Cray do this on one of his later machines? The Cray 2?
Seems like it was a 5 input And gate.
I think it was the early Cray-1 line. Four chip types - 2 gates, a
flip flop, and a memory chip.
To me, it seems like a really dumb idea. [...]