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Clockless Computing
ender81b writes "Scientific American is carrying a nice article on asynchronous chips. In general, the article advocates that eventually all computer systems will have to move to an asynchronous design. The article focuses on Sun's efforts but gives a nice overview of the general concept of asynchronous chip design." We had another story about this last year.
How many times can we beat to death the same piece of information? This is, at a minimum, the third time in the past year that we've heard the stunning "news" that async could potentially have speed advantages - and seen the endless user comments about design complexity, how it's been done with a K6/PI/PII/P3/Vic20, and how some guy's friend-who-works-at-best-buy thinks it is the wave of the future. Even the same jokes about telling time.
The editors at Slashdot really need to start doing some proper editing for once - the need for fast publication does not excuse monstrous sloppiness. Is it more important to get that article out in 5 minutes, or spend another 3 checking that you haven't posted the identical article a month ago?
Clockless Computing Wednesday November 14, @04:50PM
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Some guy talks about computers without clocks Monday March 05, @09:29AM
I am hardly a fanatical reader with nothing better to do than bitch about trivialities. I am a casual, occasional reader, coming back at random intervals only to find essentially the same content.