Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 05:51:55 +0000 Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <947j2lx3qf.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <24ffec92-9486-251d-7a42-d376b88b2c9b@example.net> <20241209135847.00004fb7@gmail.com> From: "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> Organization: wokiesux Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:51:47 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Lines: 36 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 99.101.150.97 X-Trace: sv3-YQk/frmkHOuRLG5IZSU/vUJI5eU4QQ7t1eYVUMfn1h/6LLLSqEyclDDto3VkuWSLlH5UC6OUoW9YFIP!b7aHukEtwFciG8dGg0LuE4FnMIEk4TuYn+EXHunrcF7eXaTwrz+ksDDi+z80+yVf+RWKmM/pGOSI!i3rA+h6mb/NlOqmMnEu/ X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2826 On 12/10/24 8:38 AM, D wrote: > > > On Tue, 10 Dec 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: > >> On 12/9/24 8:25 PM, rbowman wrote: >>> On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 13:58:47 -0800, John Ames wrote: >>> >>>> Any chance of this conversation returning to anything even *slightly* >>>> more relevant to *nix, computers in general, or, like, *anything* else? >>>> Maybe I should dig up some old Francis E. Dec rant for a more coherent/ >>>> relevant refresher course... >>> >>> Feel free to start a thread. >> >> >>  Ummmmm ... I just TRIED with the "Bit-Slice" topic. >>  Jumped IMMEDIATELY back to 'non-OS/Computer stuff'  :-) >> >>  Was HOPING for discussion/insight into 'alternative' >>  schemes for 'CPU's and such derived from older solutions. >> >>  Houston, we have a problem ............. >> > > Your thread was perhaps not interesting enough? Try again! ;) Awwww .... OUGHT to be an interesting topic, especially as we're bumping up against Moore's end-point. One or two more gens and we're literally at the atomic scale ; where to go from there ? Better innovate SOMETHING, otherwise we're gonna see 'peak computing' when it's become clear we need thousands of times that for the Really Cool Stuff.