HP 300 (was: "what the hell")

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Thu Jul 26 15:36:14 2001

> On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Stan Sieler wrote:
>
> > The CPU was CISC, silicon-on-saphire, and
>
> What a very interesting little machine. I am most intrigued.
> What do you mean by "silicon on saphire" though?

I wasn't following the earlier part of this, but chips
that are bound for use in satellites often use sapphire
as the substrate... something to do with resiliancy in
a high cosmic-ray environment...

-dq
Received on Thu Jul 26 2001 - 15:36:14 BST