Bruce Walker wrote: >When I started out as a young hardware pup I worked under an engineer >whose university thesis involved deconvolution image processing >algorithms running on a custom instruction set CPU that he built using >2901 ECL bit slice parts. Wire-wrapped across a large array of boards. >Pretty darned fast for the time (that being about 1977).
Fast... for 1977. That reminds me of an old Dilbert cartoon in which Dilbert is being denied his request for a faster computer and told that a 386 should be sufficient for the 3D rendering he needs to do. IT Director: I mean, how many times are you going to do 3D rendering in your career? Dilbert: Once, if I hurry. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
