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To: Bilow who wrote (84357)12/30/1999 12:34:00 AM
From: Petz  Respond to of 1572630
 
Carl, re:<I have no doubt that a bug free processor is possible, but there are solid engineering reasons for not designing one. The simplicity required might be incompatible with efficiency, or software compatibility.>

Maybe, if we tried the old PDP-8 instruction set. Anyone remember TAD, CLAC, etc.

Could probably make 128 PDP-8's running at 2 GHz on a die the size of an Athlon, though!

Anyone ever suffer with a PDP-10, with its 36 bit words?

Petz