Posted on 04/15/2005 2:06:56 PM PDT by LaserLock
Did I get your extra points?
Old habits are hard to break aren't they .....
Clever -- and well done!
Thank yew.
The Anna Kournikova ad was better, but I didn't want to have to post a picture...
Indeed! I still capitalize the first two letters of variable names -- because variable names in AppleSoft Basic consisted of two aplha chars (but you could use additional following letters as mnemonics). And, of course, the first Apple //s were uppercase-only ...on 40-character lines...
7400, something ttl? 555, some kind of op-amp?
Since we are going to go way back, what is an ignatron? I think everyone is gone from here, too bad!
555 is a timer ... it was used a lot in the 70's and 80's
So much for the recently heralded end to Moore's Law...
"555, 556, whatever it takes"
220, 221, whatever it takes..... - Mr. Mom
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The first paragraph would read, "Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton related her concern for the children who are exposed to possible cancer causing chips in their Playstations..."
"7400, something ttl? 555, some kind of op-amp?"
perhaps you refer to the 741 Op Amp......
"So much for the recently heralded end to Moore's Law..."
yes, but every 18 months or so they get close to being half right......
Amusing how a thread about future ultrasupermegafast transistors degenerates into a "my transistors were slower than yours" old-timer's argument. :-)
And yes, I knew the 7400, 555, and still have the brown/yellow TI TTL book around here somewhere, plus a couple others, and recognize most of the covers shown in this thread. Recall stringing three 74xx type inverters in a loop just to see how fast it would oscillate (rate will come to me in a few days; pretty fast then, boring slow now).
Strictly speaking, Moore's Law only addressed physical size of transistors. That it works for speed, density, etc. is incidental.
Hardcover.
"In his original paper, Moore observed an exponential growth in the number of transistors per integrated circuit and predicted that this trend would continue."
It seems like he was talking about density to me, which has to correlate pretty closely with performance. Number of transistors per IC = higher performance.
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