Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!dmmartindale From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: Cray vs ICs, continued Message-ID: <486@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 10:51:50 EDT Article-I.D.: watcgl.486 Posted: Wed Jun 15 10:51:50 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jun-83 07:09:19 EDT References: <88@wateng.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 6 I was under the impression that Cray used only very simple IC's where all of the emitter outputs went off-chip and thus could be tied to resistors to give the constant power consumption regardless of output state that he desired. More complex MSI chips would have internal gates which fed only other internal gates and thus the loading of these internal gates could not be controlled.