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

Wed Apr 8 17:22:08 CDT 1998

> I think Barry got you both :)

You _think_ Barry got us both?  We'll that sounds
like you don't _know_ either.  :-P  :-)

I doubt those sort of things are even published in
any tech manual.  By the way, did you know that
there are 31,536,000 seconds in a normal year?  The
point I'm making is "so what, who cares."  If an
8051 has X number of gates and X number of flip-flops,
and a hc11 has X+n number and a 486 has X+n+y number,
who cares?  If I told everyone the number would they
commit it to memory just so they could spout that
number at a dinner party and impress their friends?  :-) 
What would one do with that number?  Would they put it at
the top of every program they wrote?  I can't see any
reason to need to know it.

I'll admit defeat when someone can cough up the numbers
he's asking for and explain why those numbers are relevant
to most people.  :-)

I'd just love to learn new relevant things that I don't 
already know.  o:-)

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