Re: Testaus

[Eric Rucker <bhtooefr@gmail.com>]

On Dec 15, 3:43 am, Gav <g...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Dec 15, 1:44 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > The 17-board AppleCrate II consumes about 75W total!
>
> You could be on to something there - from memory a fully populated HP
> c-class blade enclosure (16 blades) can suck up to 6KW of juice (or
> there abouts) - the answer to the worlds energy problems is now
> obvious - I think we should give Apple a call and get them to crank up
> the Apple II assembly line... ;-)

The funny thing is, the Apple II is horribly energy inefficient for
what it is, in today's time. With modern process technology, you could
probably make a *MUCH* more power efficient Apple-II-on-a-chip ASIC,
and run it off of a couple AA batteries for a ridiculously long time.

I mean, my calculator has much, much more processing power than any
Apple II, even a GS with a 14MHz TWGS, thanks to its 75MHz ARM920T-
based core, and it uses four AAA batteries, and I think I've only
changed them once in over a year. And, it seems that thing's processor
is made on a 180 nm process (which was state of the art in 1999,
outdated in 2003 or so,) not current 65 or 45 nm processes.