Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: ETA-10: CMOS or ECL?
Message-ID: <3539@phri.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 88 15:59:54 GMT
Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC, NY
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	I was at JVNC yesterday gaping through the plate-glass windows at
the ETA-10 they have there (very sexy packaging; looks sort of like you
would expect a HAL-9000 to look).  Anyway, some guy who sounded pretty
knowledgeable about the machine came up to me and started telling me about
how it worked.

	At one point I said something like "The CPU is all ECL, right?",
and he said, "No, it's CMOS".  This really surprised me.  Is it really
CMOS?  I always thought of CMOS as pretty slow stuff, just pushing the
speed of normal TTL, and certainly not supercomputer stuff.
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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