5 Oct
2007
5 Oct
'07
2:28 p.m.
On 5 Oct 2007 at 13:28, Tim Shoppa wrote:
Responsiveness of a computer system depends on a lot
more than the
speed of the semiconductors used to build it. Plenty of modern examples
of how to make fast silicon seem slow are coming out of Redmond I
notice :-).
I seem to recall that there was a Honeywell mainframe back in the
70's that was completely re-engineered to make use of ECL--with the
result that the new machine wasn't much faster than the older one.
Anyone recall the system? Was that the one with direct water cooling-
-and algae in the cooling lines?
Cheers,
Chuck