-=> Richard Menedetter wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 TL> Mine was a 1.2 GHz CPU, IIRC.  I had some stability problems, which
 TL> underclocking did resolve.  I ran it at around 1 or 1.05 GHz.

 RM> Hmmm ... then it was something else.
 RM> Maybe they introduced a die shrink and f**ked it up again.
 RM> AMD always sucked at silicon production.
 RM> Intel was and is ahead by a big margin there.

You might be right.  Underclocking worked, though it made the performance a bit
lacklustre.

 RM> I am a bit younger than most in Fido ;)

And how young is that?  I'm somewhere near the median age at 48, though
physically younger. ;)

 RM> And yes ... that course was very nice.
 RM> We also had a look at the Itanium, ARM and some other architectures.
 RM> Many years earlier they built a Z80 based computer of their own (TUMax
 -> Technical University of Vienna)

Nice. :)

 RM> If you are interested I can dig out the video from Bob that he made at
 RM> Stanford university.
 RM> It is REALLY a great talk and gives many insights for the design

Sounds interesting, only issue is I don't have a lot of time for videos.  I
tend to multitask heavily, and video/audio don't lend themselves to that style
of operation.  Otherwise I'd have domestic issues. :)


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