At 02:18 pm 21/08/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>On August 21, Adrian Vickers wrote:
>> It's still possible to buy new Z80 CPUs (?2.50 in the UK);
>
> They're all over teh place here as well. They won't be going away
>anytime soon; they're very popular in the embedded systems market.
>
>> how many would it take to build a pentium-IV class machine? :)
>
> My guess:
>
> Raw integer performance: 500+
> Reliability: 0.5
> Elegance of Quality of design: 0.1
Oh, I don't know. You could be quite arty about it. For instance, make a
huuuge PCB in the shape of your room, and hang it from the ceiling... Don't
forget to leave a hole (or two) for the lightbulb!
Of course, the internal architecture would be a nightmare...
> Programming enjoyability: 0.5
> Innovativeness: 0.5
Is that a scale of 0-1 BTW?
Cheers!
Ade.
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Received on Tue Aug 21 2001 - 16:38:57 BST