Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!rutgers!ucsd!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!stat!stat.fsu.edu!mccalpin From: mccalpin@masig3.ocean.fsu.edu (John D. McCalpin) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: What CMOS cannot do (Re: Surges) Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 89 20:20:14 GMT References: <7000@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <31547@hal.mips.COM> Sender: news@stat.fsu.edu Organization: Supercomputer Computations Research Institute Lines: 20 In-reply-to: mark@mips.COM's message of 16 Nov 89 22:25:29 GMT In article <31547@hal.mips.COM> mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) writes: >> >>CMOS is wonderful, but the ECL/GaAs/BiCMOS folks talk an awful good >>fight about how it's a different world on the other side of 50 MHz. >> >It's a terrible shame that CMOS parts are being shipped to customers, >for money, which operate over 50MHz. The ECL/GaAs/BiCMOS folks have >apparently discovered reasons why it can't be done. [... List of high-speed (> 50 MHz) devices deleted ...] Don't forget the ETA-10. We have 4 CMOS CPU's here at FSU running at 140 MHz.... I think that CDC is planning on using this technology in their recently announced Cyber 2000 "supermainframe". It may have failed in the market, but there is lots of pretty impressive hardware in the ETA-10.... -- John D. McCalpin - mccalpin@masig1.ocean.fsu.edu mccalpin@scri1.scri.fsu.edu mccalpin@delocn.udel.edu