Film at 11:00

Thu Jan 2 22:28:31 UTC 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