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From: b-davis@utah-cs.UUCP (Brad Davis)
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Subject: Re: How to fab One-Of-A-Kind systems?
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Date: Thu, 16-May-85 11:07:00 EDT
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>> Things to beware of, however:
>> 
>> 	At high speed, wire wrap temds to crap out.
>> 	(i.e. > 8 Mhz or so).  Then again, so do sockets.
>
>Not necessarily true. At NCR we used twisted pair wire wrap in a large,
>multiboard, 38-nanosecond processor.
>
I once helped (did software) on a project that had 15 nanosecond signals
running around on the board.  The only twisted pairs ran off the board to
a high resolution monitor.
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			Brad Davis
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