On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:08:31 -0500
Paul Koning <pkoning_at_equallogic.com> wrote:
> Jochen> Why build a replica when you can have The Real Thing:
> Jochen> http://www.cray-cyber.org/ --
> Sure, that's neat. But I don't have it -- John Z does...
You can log into it via the Internet.
Be glad you don't own this machine, 400 V three phase power and 130 A
start up current...
> People have built Cyber replicas out of FPGAs; it doesn't seem all
> that hard.
There is the book "Design of a Computer, The Control Data 6600". It
states somewhere that the machine was build out of 400.000 transistors.
So it seems quite possible to reimplement it in FPGAs.
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
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