29 Dec
2001
29 Dec
'01
6:50 a.m.
"Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" wrote:
Q: will a Pentium chip put out enough heat to boil
water? It takes it a
long time to toast bread.
A: No use several Z80's. They have the same thermal characteristics as
standard stove elements, in watts per mm^2. The Pentium chips run
hotter internally but ever since the Three Mile Island* meltdown there
as been laws against more than 1 cpu per motherboard.
* The meltdown was from the control computers -- not the reactor! :)
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Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html