21 Aug
2001
21 Aug
'01
1:18 p.m.
On August 21, Adrian Vickers wrote:
It's still possible to buy new Z80 CPUs (?2.50 in
the UK);
They're all over teh place here as well. They won't be going away
anytime soon; they're very popular in the embedded systems market.
how many would it take to build a pentium-IV class
machine? :)
My guess:
Raw integer performance: 500+
Reliability: 0.5
Elegance of Quality of design: 0.1
Programming enjoyability: 0.5
Innovativeness: 0.5
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD
21 Aug
21 Aug
4:38 p.m.
At 02:18 pm 21/08/2001 -0400, you wrote:
On August 21, Adrian Vickers wrote:
Oh, I don't know. You could be quite arty about it. For instance, make a
huuuge PCB in the shape of your room, and hang it from the ceiling... Don't
forget to leave a hole (or two) for the lightbulb!
Of course, the internal architecture would be a nightmare...
It's still possible to buy new Z80 CPUs
(?2.50 in the UK);
They're all over teh place here as well. They won't be going away
anytime soon; they're very popular in the embedded systems market.
how many would it take to build a pentium-IV
class machine? :)
My guess:
Raw integer performance: 500+
Reliability: 0.5
Elegance of Quality of design: 0.1 Programming enjoyability: 0.5
Innovativeness: 0.5
Is that a scale of 0-1 BTW?
Cheers!
Ade.
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