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Re: Film at 11:00

  • From: Vadim Antonov
  • Date: Thu Jan 02 17:53:03 1997 
Tony wrote:

>   Providing that there's a way to get a bunch of cheapo CPUs to do the
>   job.

>True, but there's a complexity hit (which translates into a reliability hit
>and a development lag) from this approach.

Well, i do not think that using off-the-shelf cheapo CPUs debugged by
somebody else and tested in millions of applications, instead of
single-purpose ASICs qualifies as a reliability hit or a development lag :)

--vadim
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