Clockless Computing

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Posted by michael on Wednesday July 17, 2002 @06:50AM from the beat-of-a-different-drummer dept.

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.

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First? by Cmdr+Taco+posted · 2002-07-17 06:51 · Score: -1, Troll

fags.
Cockless computing?! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-17 06:52 · Score: -1, Troll

Why would you want to do that?
FP, by the way.
1. Re:Cockless computing?! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-17 09:21 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  What?!? -1 Off-Topic?!?
  Are moderators smoking crack or what?
  
  The first poster asked a simple question and i did not understood it as beeing a troll.
  The next guy asked why it had moderated as such, also a VERY valid question, in the circumstance.
  
  Imposing silence by using attributed power is called a dictature don't you know that?
  You should (moderators) accept some positive critics once in a while!
  
  Fortunatly, there is the Anonymous Coward options...
Pist Frost by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-17 06:52 · Score: -1, Troll

I own the CLiT!
fp by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-17 06:52 · Score: -1, Troll

... bitch.
First REAL post by klerk · 2002-07-17 06:54 · Score: -1, Troll

This is the first REAL POST! All the other fags don't count! Acs can fuck off and die like the bastards they are!
1. Re:First REAL post by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-17 16:48 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  WARNING: The above poster is NOT KLERCK. The imposter does not know how to widen pages, and probably could not even widen his own asshole.
cockless?!? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-17 06:55 · Score: -1, Troll

cockless computers, but what about all the porn?!?! damn MPAA + RIAA + Microsoft + Government!!
Pretty cool by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-17 06:56 · Score: -1, Troll

I've written some papers on this subject myself. Check 'em out here
Mirror? by sbeitzel · 2002-07-17 07:02 · Score: -1, Troll

Tried to RTFA, but the site's Slashdotted.

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Oh, go on, check out my job.
Haven't we seen a similar story before? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-17 07:11 · Score: -1, Troll

Here. Seems like that system has to be running on some sort of clockless architecture for sure.
Re:Funny title by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-17 07:22 · Score: -1, Troll

UHUHUHUHHUH!
http://www.somethingawful.com/article.php?id=361 by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-17 07:33 · Score: -1, Troll

http://www.somethingawful.com/article.php?id=361
Its better than sex!
Sigh. by supermoose · 2002-07-17 20:49 · Score: 0, Troll

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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