re: OS9 PDA's, 68360

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From: brian (b.c.) white
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1993 15:26

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>Only problem -- this chip ain't little, it's a 240-pin quad flat
>pack.  But since you can hook those SIMMs right up to it without
>a separate DRAM controller...

Tiny!  You should see the DRAM controller some guys here designed for
a Motorola 88110 CPU.  It's die is 12mills on each side and is 434 pins!
The thing's built out of batmos and is about $500 each.  Now that's
hardware!

Still, the 360 sounds pretty nice!

These opinions are all                      Brian                 _ /  __/  _ /
mine and you can't have               ( studer@bnr.ca )          / / __ / __ /
any.  So there!                 ( bcwhite@sunee.uwaterloo.ca ) ___/ ___/ ___/
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