How scarce (valuable) is core for the PDP-8?

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 01:50:03 1999

Allison wrote:
> Mike, PCI is 33mhz and core at best is 1mhz tthat would eb an expensive
> slow joke.

Not many PCI devices can support random reads in fewer than four to five
clock cycles. A core memory board would just take more cycles. So what?

Why is hooking up a small core memory to PCI any more of a joke than building
it in 1999 in general? As I recall, you proposed making about 256 bytes.
It's not like you're going to be able to run an operating system out of it
on *any* machine, modern or classic.
Received on Thu Apr 22 1999 - 01:50:03 BST