From: ABlainey@aol.com
Date: Sat Jan 18 2003 - 19:50:10 MST
In a message dated 19/01/03 02:34:29 GMT Standard Time,
thespike@earthlink.net writes:
>
> 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
>
>
>
Bugger ! <g>
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