KrNews #08 05 марта 1999

INTRO - Создание К. Синклером компьютера ZX-2000.

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            May be начало...
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          Я посмотрел на небо. Что может
быть  более  неизменным  в любом
мире в любое время? Лежать, чув-
ствовать,  как засасывает, тянет
бесконечное небо...  Как перево-
рачивается мир, и вот уже  не ты
валяешся на спине, расслабленный
и ленивый  прищуренно вглядываю-
щийся  в  бездну,  а вся планета
лежит на твоих плечах, и ты дер-
жишь ее  над  небом. Последний и
единственный атлант...

                         "Звездная тень"
                       Сергей Лукьяненко


          "Крепитесь люди - скоро лето!"


  Ну вот и еще одна  "зима" закончилась,
а сколько их еще предстоит...
  Новый номер - новая радость жизни :)

  Что-бы  вам  такого  поведать  на этот
раз, даже и не знаю.  Хотя парочку инте-
рестных моментов  я все ж пожалуй и нас-
кребу:

 - Фирме  "Zilog"  этом году исполняется
25 лет со дня своего основания!

 - Сэр Клайв Синклер  недавно  объявил о
своем  намерении  к  2000  году  создать
ZX-2000 превосходящий по скорости P-II в
10 раз !!! Во как!

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    My new computer will be 10 times
          faster than a P2!


  Clive  reveals  the  ZX2000! (typed by
Craig Rothwell & (C) Frontiers magazine)


  I  want  to  design  another  computer
because  I think I can make a decent job
of  it. I've started work on a prototype
already.  It's  a  competitor  to the PC
because  the  modern desktop computer is
about  a  bad  design  as  possible.  It
really is appalling. It wastes memory on
an  unbelievable scale and it slows down
an  extremely  fast  CPU with cumbersome
Routines  and programs. I think theres a
huge  room  for  improvement.  I want to
create   a   computer   that  completely
portable  but also totally functional so
there is no compromise. I want something
that is going to cost 10 times less than
a  current  notebook  PC and have a huge
battery  life  so You won't have to keep
recharging  the  thing.  The trick is to
get  the  power  consumption so low that
you  just stick in a couple of batteries
and  replace  them  a  month later. I've
been  spending  a lot of time looking at
display  technology,  because that's one
element  that  I  haven't  got. I need a
very  good,  low cost display. I think I
know how to do it, but it is an terrific
amount  of technology but I'm working on
that  very  hard at the moment. In order
to do the sort of computer I want it has
got  to  be  very  very  low  power.  We
designed   our   own   CPU  and  its  an
extereamly  high performance one, we had
prototypes  of  it  sometime ago and its
blindingly  fast,  About 10 times faster
than   a   P2.   It  would  have  to  be
manufactured using a specially developed
semi   conductor   process.   I've  been
talking to a company in this country and
were  at a fairly advance stage. It's an
ultra  RISC  chip,  which  has  an 8-bit
word,    and   it   has   16   principal
instructions.  I  don't  want to go into
too  much  technical detail or bamboozle
you   with   jargon,   but  this  little
blighter  Will  be  incredibly  fast and
very efficient.