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Technology / Re: What Question Could You Ask To Determine Sentience Of An AI ?
« on: 30/06/2022 12:49:27 »
Then you could get the AM2901 bitslice processor, which could do that calculation faster, and at a slightly lower power consumption. But that was 1975, so yes you had to do multiplication with either a lot of TTL, and use some look up tables in EPROM to make some of the logic simpler, as there was not really much in the way of being able to do it otherwise. That AMD part likely saved at least one board of TTL MSI logic.
I repaired computers like that, where half the 20kg mass of the unit was just the ceramic packages of the MSI TTL in it. Power supply was 2 SMPS units, using 1960's era parts to implement a power supply that was capable of 5V at 50A in the palm of your hand, one on all the time to power the interface, and the other powering the arithmetic only when needed to actually execute functions, as otherwise the power density would exceed the cooling capability. Still needed 300W of cooling, on the test bench 4 120mm fans off the mains supply, to keep it under 60C case temperature.
The other one used flatpacks all though it, different designs, and with Mostek MK4007 serial memories for storage, doing all the arithmetic using look up tables in 2708 EPROMS, and others storing the program it executed in a single loop. All inputs, and a single output relay contact, plus a few flag outputs used for changing fixed mode displays.
I repaired computers like that, where half the 20kg mass of the unit was just the ceramic packages of the MSI TTL in it. Power supply was 2 SMPS units, using 1960's era parts to implement a power supply that was capable of 5V at 50A in the palm of your hand, one on all the time to power the interface, and the other powering the arithmetic only when needed to actually execute functions, as otherwise the power density would exceed the cooling capability. Still needed 300W of cooling, on the test bench 4 120mm fans off the mains supply, to keep it under 60C case temperature.
The other one used flatpacks all though it, different designs, and with Mostek MK4007 serial memories for storage, doing all the arithmetic using look up tables in 2708 EPROMS, and others storing the program it executed in a single loop. All inputs, and a single output relay contact, plus a few flag outputs used for changing fixed mode displays.