From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Sat Jan 18 2003 - 19:31:15 MST
The 'Blainey machine.' We build for example a microprocessor with
architecture that omits the devices we really want. If we wanted super fast
transistors, we leave them out. We still have the tracks that would have
connected them to the rest of the processor circuit, but we have effectively
made a non-functioning super chip.
Ah, you've reinvented the Hieronymus machine beloved of John W. Campbell in
Astounding in the late 1950s...
Damien Broderick
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