On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 8:37 PM David Niklas <[email protected]> wrote: > Is the CDC 6600 and it's successors an open source CPU? The way luke talks > about the CDC 6600, it is totally available for inspection,
yes it is. look for the book, online, "Design of a Computer", by James Thornton. > I often think that we lost a lot of genius due to the closed source > nature of modern processors. pretty much an entire generation, yes. > Concerning luke's need to drive 128 gates from 1. You could probably > operate more gates at once if you used a MOSFET instead of a normal > transistor for your driving gate (I have no idea if or how that would > work in silicon though). it means custom design, it means making the driver larger, and the larger driver means a slower response. whatever you do, it'll be slower. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
