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Default An interesting article about the history of the '486' cpu

On 23/02/2021 09:44, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 20:39:03 +0000, Andrew wrote:

http://www.cpushack.com/2021/02/21/t...-the-birth-of-

overclocking-part-1/

A mixture of pictures and text Brian


Whatever happened to Sinclairs idea of intelligent fault-tolerant wafers
that simply blew the links to duff dies and worked as entire assemblies
of chips ?


Probably yields improved and the amount crammed into a tiny section of
the wafer made it unnecessary - his original intention was for the 512KB
RAM pack for the QL to be wafer scale, but we have moved so far past
that that it is perhaps unnecessary.