sometimes99er Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 You gotta love this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC6nw229CEo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Thanks for sharing that, Karsten, it was very interesting. I enjoyed it. I wander what the guys back then would have thought / said about our current trend of technology, with our Apple / Samsung tablets and mobile phone devices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinkeey Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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matthew180 Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 I wander what the guys back then would have thought / said about our current trend of technology, with our Apple / Samsung tablets and mobile phone devices. I think they would be disappointed. They would scratch their heads and wonder why our computers are just faster more dense versions of the computers and ideas they came up with. Nothing new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 I think they would be disappointed. They would scratch their heads and wonder why our computers are just faster more dense versions of the computers and ideas they came up with. Nothing new. My thoughts exactly. 100% agree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinkeey Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 What if someone was to build a computer around a High Speed TMS-9900 CPU today? Well I guess it would be a TMS-9900, but it would have it's instruction set. Would that instruction set be able to compete with today's CPUs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 No, not even if you made it run at 4Ghz. But it would have many more applications it could run to get a little market share. (Not that it would become popular) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Well... if you took the Coldfyre route, which runs the 680x0 instruction set, it might be able to compete in the embedded market, but with ARM rapidly rising to rule the world there, its days would be numbered. The Atmels are a 16-bit CPU and have a strong hold in the hobbyist market thanks to the Arduino (and just being generally good), and there is even stil an 8-bit embedded market. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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