KrNews #08 05 марта 1999

INTRO - Create K. Sinclair ZX-2000 computers.

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            May be the beginning ...
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          I looked at the sky. What can
be more constant in any
the world at any time? Lie, feel like sucks, pulls
endless sky ... As the world turns, and now you do not
valyaeshsya on his back, relaxed
and lazy narrowed to peer into the abyss, and the entire planet
rests on your shoulders, and you hold it over the air. The last 
and Atlanta only ...



                         "Star Shadow"

                       Sergei Lukyanenko



          "Be brave people - soon the summer!"



  Well here is one more "winter" is over,
but how many of them have yet to ...

  The new number - a new joy in life:)


  What would you tell this to this
again, do not even know. Although a couple of moments 
interestnyh I get enough money and are probably: 

 - The company "Zilog" This year marks the
25 years since its founding!

 - Sir Clive Sinclair has recently announced
its intention to create in 2000
ZX-2000 for exceeding the speed P-II in
10 times! So there!



    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.