That sounds impressive, 1,000,000,0000 transistors. ( 10 Billion
marketing gates :) ). Did you know the PDP-8/S had 1001 transistors in
marketed in 1968?
Now with that many transistors how is failing/defective
transistors/CLB's handled? Need one design error detecting logic in the
new cpu ISA's? While I know the decimal machines of the 1950's often had
error detecting codes like 2 bits out 5 that not only detected storage
problems it detected alu problems too. Is there anything simple for
today's binary machines in re-coding information for storage and
arithmetic to detect possible problems?
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Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
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