[libre-riscv-dev] [Bug 154] Cell for Dependency Matrices is needed

[whygee at f-cpu.org]

> --- Comment #13 from Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> ---
> (In reply to Staf Verhaegen from comment #12)
>> I was talking about the CDC6600 architecture...
> 
> oh! yes, haha, yes absolutely.  writing for benefit of list archives 
> here:
> google "Design of a Computer, James Thornton".
> 
> they used ECL logic, they used *actual transistors* (3 pins, thru-hole)

Nope, the CDC used DCTL (Direct Coupled Transistor Logic) and asked 
Fairchild
to make a specific transistor, still sold today : the gold-doped 2N2369

ECL was used later for the Cray-1, made of "many" dual (N)OR3 gates
(and also "many" 1Kb ECL SRAM chips for the -S model)

Just saying ;-)

yg