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From: Derek Fawcus <dfawcus+lists-coff@employees.org>
To: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [COFF] Tonight's epiphany
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 20:41:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YfMDbpxEEORgLGJA@clarinet.employees.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220127033241.GA18469@mcvoy.com>

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 07:32:41PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> I'm still waiting for the self timed logic I was taught in the 1980s.
> Does anyone know why that is not a thing?  It seemed smart back then.

There were clockless ARM variants, i.e.

https://www.edn.com/arm-philips-develop-clockless-processor/
https://www.eetimes.com/arm-offers-first-clockless-processor-core/

also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMULET_microprocessor

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-27 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-27  2:09 Adam Thornton
2022-01-27  3:00 ` Bakul Shah
2022-01-27  3:32   ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-27  4:30     ` Bakul Shah
2022-01-27  7:37     ` Peter Jeremy via COFF
2022-01-27 20:41     ` Derek Fawcus [this message]
2022-01-27  5:33   ` Efton Collins

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