22 Apr
2016
22 Apr
'16
9:13 p.m.
On 04/22/2016 10:36 PM, ben wrote:
I think the problem was memory at the time. What was the
use having
a FAST bitslice machine, but real memory at the time was
SMALL and SLOw.
Well, I had 45 ns static RAM for control store on my 2903
bit slice machine. Yes, those were 1K x 4 chips, and I put
heat sinks on them, they ran that hot. Obviously, large
main memory was going to have to run slower.
Jon