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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date: 13 Dec 2024 08:43:36 GMT
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On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 04:37:50 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:

> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 01:54:05 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
>> 
>>>    Ummmmm ... I just TRIED with the "Bit-Slice" topic.
>>>    Jumped IMMEDIATELY back to 'non-OS/Computer stuff'
>> 
>> How about that bubble memory?
> 
> What I recall was all the hype about how bubble memory was going to
> surpass everything else and the shift was "just around the corner".
> 
> Thirty years later and few even remember "bubble memoriess" were ever a
> thing.

The memory hole is deep and dark. I think I still have the preliminary 
datasheets for the iAPX 432 that was going to be Intel's real 32 bit 
processor. The iAPX 86 was a stop gap until they got the bugs worked out.