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From: gerry@zds-ux.UUCP (Gerry Gleason)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: R6000 PCs? [no, but later CMOS ones]
Message-ID: <105@zds-ux.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 90 19:01:14 GMT
References: <3300092@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <76700106@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <220@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <34410@mips.mips.COM>
Reply-To: gerry@zds-ux.UUCP (Gerry Gleason)
Organization: Zenith Data Systems
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In article <34410@mips.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes:
>In article <220@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> jml@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Michael Lodman) writes:
	[ about cooling problems to put R6000's on a desktop ]
>	c) However, it is perfectly predictable that there will be
>	CMOS-based desktops with the same CPU performance, within a few
>	years.  Whether you call these PCs or workstations doesn't matter much.

But doesn't CMOS get just as hot when you start clocking it at ECL speeds.
Or if not as hot, close enough to have serious power and cooling problems.

Gerry Gleason