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Article #10787Re: COMPAQ PROPOSED SCALABLE I/O ARCHITECTURE
From: Donald Lindsay
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:58
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:58
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ajc@pa.dec.com (AJ Casamento) writes: > I guess I not as upset by the concept of using an ASIC. Of course, I'm not >talking about respinning a full custom ASIC for each new design either. I would expect that the ASICs could become cheap, and would have a lot in common internally. However, ASICs have a lead time. If Compaq is serious about spreading this as a standard, then they should make available a common-denominator design based on common parts, or on FPGAs. Something that lets people get their feet wet, at the very least. -- Don D.C.Lindsay Carnegie Mellon Computer Science
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