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- From: davidsen@yeti.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: RISC vs. CISC (Was: Re: P5 or Pentium)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.162812.29679@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 16:28:12 GMT
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- In article <1ejb8lINNos7@chnews.intel.com>, tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell~) writes:
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- | because it is running faster. For example, as I recall the first HP-PA
- | (Precision Architecture) chip set was actually bonded to large copper
- | "Finstrates" to dissapate heat because it ran so fast.
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- That's not exactly a novel idea... GE was doing that back in the 60's
- while we ere still in the computer business. And water cooling the back
- of the substrate, too.
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- There's a story that some algae formed in the cooling system, and one
- of the employees decided s/he knew how to fix that (this was in Pheonix
- AZ) and added some pool chemicals to the water. Unfortunately copper
- sulphate and stuff made the water a nifty copper solvent and disolved
- the chip from the backside.
-
- Right after that we sold the business.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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