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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: ATTACK OF KILLER MICROS (Actual
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Date: 21 Nov 89 01:33:54 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Nov 20 08:42:00 1989


> parallelism to continue to deliver more performance.  If you project the
> slope of the clock rates of supercomputers, you will see sub-nanosecond
> CYCLE times before 1995.  I don't see any technologies in the wings which
> promise to allow this to continue...


>Anyone else have Opinions?  Facts?


No, of course not. How fast could the speed demon people do a
PDP8 on a chip right now - just the CPU and 4k words of memory plus
a couple of serial lines - lets say 200 megabaud? HAs anyone else
out there looked at the schematic of a PDP-8? Its pretty RISC.


Doug McDonald