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Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date: 12 Dec 2024 20:22:17 GMT
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On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 10:51:47 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Which is why the tendency today is to stick to  around 3-4GHz clocks but
> add more cores and local cache RAM , and security risk style predictive
> branches.

That gets a little spooky. When I was doing Z80 stuff at 4 to 6 MHz you 
could get away with a lot.