discrete transistors

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Mon Oct 19 20:31:57 1998

< And none of those tricks scale up very well for implementing high-perfor
< versions of standard microprocessor architectures. The point was that

The point is why copy the x86! there are better ways.

I don't think I want to try and do the cache and pipeline registers as
they eat transistors like mad being mostly memory structures. Copying
a PII is also copying how much ram?

It would not be a practical venture.

Allison
Received on Mon Oct 19 1998 - 20:31:57 BST