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there was tyan, supermicro, and MSI? at least i thin my board with the dual pentium 60mhz chips was msi.
Pentium 60MHz was P5 though, not P54C ... if I'm not mistaken. IIRC the slowest P54C was the 75MHz one as they all had 1.5x multiplier or greater? Again, I wouldn't rule out my memory being wrong.
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So _that's_ what a Jacquard loom is. I've seen it mentioned often. Thank you.
There are some old Jacquard card stacks which are literally the oldest machine readable datasets in existence, a century before Hollerith.
A fun full-circle. The Jacquard loom was influential for input for early computers, and now the computer is influencing the output of looms
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I laughed at the bit where the gallery picked the wrong side of the rug to display, but this got me thinking -- presumably all the die photos we see are from the etched side of the wafer, what does it look like on the other side? Is it just all flat?
The other side is plain gray silicon; I've looked at the back side of dies by mistake many times. (Intel is starting to do power through the back side, which would make the back more interesting.)
That's some serious...multithreading! (I applaud others for resisting such cringe, but I just couldn't help myself.)
– Ada Lovelace, 1843
That's some serious...multithreading! (I applaud others for resisting such cringe, but I just couldn't help myself.)
A fun full-circle. The Jacquard loom was influential for input for early computers, and now the computer is influencing the output of looms
I thought the same thing reading this! I'm currently reading Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone, which details the life of John von Neumann. According to his brother Nicholas, von Neumann likely got the idea to use punch cards for computers from the Jacquard loom. One of his father's (Maxwell von Neumann) clients at the turn of the century was a Jacquard loom manufacturer, and Max would evidently discuss his wo…
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The other side is plain gray silicon; I've looked at the back side of dies by mistake many times. (Intel is starting to do power through the back side, which would make the back more interesting.)
Note that it's entirely transparent to some wavelengths of light, which is why a lot of die shots are taken from the backside, as it allows doing them non-destructively. You just cannot use visible light.