Re: TI-H: New TI
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Re: TI-H: New TI
Hello !
> The problem with those is that they run hot and are very expensive. I
> beleive Alpha's don't come for less than $1000 apeice, even in bulk.
> And even if the calc DID have an Alpha, a separate FPU would slow it
> down. There is no standalone FPU chip that can come close to matching
> the Alpha's FPU, which, as I recall, scored about 27 on the SpecFP95
> tests. Integrated FPUs can interface faster with the main processor
> than separate ones can, because the separate ones have to deal with the
> bus, which typically runs at a quarter of the processor speed or less,
> when you get up that high.
>
> The original person who suggested the StrongARM was being serious. It
> is powerful, cheap, and economic. Maybe not as cheap as the Z80, but
> hey, we're talking about calcs running 30+ times as fast! The rest of
> you, who say things similar to the message quoted above, are being
> sarcastic, I think. An Alpha would never run in a calculator! Alpha's
> are power-hungry, and need a lot of room to run, because of the heat
> they generate. Cray supercomputers, which use Alphas, often have
> liquid-based cooling systems equivalent to the radiator on an
> internal-combustion engine.
>
Yeah I know that, but you can't ask a calc to become a laptop computer... I
personnaly think the 92's twice too big...
a+
Alexis