Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Fri, 13 Dec 2024, Rich wrote:

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 01:54:05 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
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   Ummmmm ... I just TRIED with the "Bit-Slice" topic.
   Jumped IMMEDIATELY back to 'non-OS/Computer stuff'

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How about that bubble memory?

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What I recall was all the hype about how bubble memory was going to
surpass everything else and the shift was "just around the corner".
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Thirty years later and few even remember "bubble memoriess" were ever a
thing.
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Reminds me of HP:s "the machine" that imploded spectacularly! An amazing example of what marketing can do, when disconnected from engineering! ;)