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- From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A quick alpha question...
- Message-ID: <10543@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 08:38:49 GMT
- References: <C12856.90y@mach1.wlu.ca> <C13nqI.2rs@dcs.ed.ac.uk> <C1423z.E5s@rice.edu>
- Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
- Organization: Commodore Germany
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- In article <C1423z.E5s@rice.edu> kopnicky@owlnet.rice.edu (Lyle Warren Kopnicky) writes:
- >
- >Huh? I find it hard to believe that any CMOS chip could possibly
- >outperform an ECL chip.
-
- Well, progress...
-
- >Besides, if you could run CMOS faster than
- >ECL, you wouldn't need a cooling tower.
-
- CMOS needs power to switch its state. And when the frequency goes up,
- power consumption also does. No contradiction here.
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- >Then you wouldn't be able
- >to use any superconducting materials.
-
- Hmm, who said anything about superconductivity?
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