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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
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Subject: Re: Cray vs ICs, continued
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Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 10:51:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 15 10:51:50 1983
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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.