F100K

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Tue Sep 30 12:37:00 1997

> This CPU card was covered on one side in surface mounted 100000 series
> ECL, which I believe is the same as F100K.

Yes it is the same. There was (is?) a newer, faster family called 100E,
the ECLipS family by Motorola. I think it died out with F100K.

> The other side of the card
> had a thin layer of insulator and a thick layer of steel - presumably to
> interface thermally to a cooling system.

That sound similar to the system incorporated into many earlier Cray
machines, except that the Crays used a copper sheet.

William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net
Received on Tue Sep 30 1997 - 12:37:00 BST