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Article #1796Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long)
From: Carl Ellison
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1988 17:28
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1988 17:28
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In article <360@elan.UUCP>, jlo@elan.UUCP (Jeff Lo) writes:
>
> The entire CPU board consists of 45 chips as compared to 100+ for a fast
> PC and 300+ for a typical workstation. Everything has been crammed onto
> a 12 inch square board through the use of very dense surface mounted
> devices, and a few large custom CMOS chips.
By my calculator, 45 chips in 144 square inches
gives 3.2 sq.in. per chip, on the average.
Since a number of those need to be memory (therefore not monster PGAs),
I don't see the need to cram.
What's up here?
--Carl Ellison ...!harvard!anvil!es!cme (normal mail address)
...!ulowell!cloud9!cme (usenet news reading)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!mit-eddie!husc6!m2c!jjmhome!cloud9!cme From: cme@cloud9.UUCP (Carl Ellison) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.misc,comp.arch Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long) Summary: cramming? Message-ID: <2070@cloud9.UUCP> Date: 14 Oct 88 17:28:33 GMT References: <360@elan.UUCP> Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., Marlboro, MA Lines: 18