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Step back for a minute and realize how astonishing these devices are. As someone who was in the semiconductor industry in the late 80s and 90s I am just blown a
by paul_f 13y ago
Step back for a minute and realize how astonishing these devices are. As someone who was in the semiconductor industry in the late 80s and 90s I am just blown away.
We are putting magic on chips
- sizzle 13y agowhat were some of the cutting edge specs like back then?
- rodgerd 13y agoLike for like? I was programming on Acorn Archimedes 310s back in 1987: an ARM 2 clocked at 8 MHz. The memory and video controllers were discrete chips. Acorn claimed that their ARM 2's pipeline design let it run integer operations at the same speed as a 20 - 25 MHz 386. IIRC it only had 23 instructions, making it the most pure RISC design to be available off the shelf.