DPRG mailing list archives: DPRG: Gates and flip-flops

Wed Apr 8 14:37:23 CDT 1998

Gates, flops, is that something to do with Microsoft? :-)

> HC11 has _____________gates and _______flip-flops.
> 8051 has _____________ gates and _______flip-flops.
> 486DX266 has _________gates and _______flip-flops.

IHMO that's a strange way to look at things.  For FPGA's or
something like that, it might be good information, but
for a CPU, does it really matter how many transistors,
gates or flip-flops it has and how they were arranged
to make those things to operate?

What's more important to me is the speed, cost, and 
functionality.  Hey, if it were a really fast cock-roach,
that would be ok too.  :-)  It can crawl under a _gate_
and when it dies it _flip-flops_.  :-)

Well, now that you ask, I'm interested to know too.  :-)

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