Interestingly that isn't so. I knew a bunch of the people writing the run s heets for the last couple of generations of IBM's ECL machines. They were b ased on the ATX4 and ATX6 processes, and a finished ATX run sheet had over
600 process steps vs less than 300 for contemporary CMOS logic.Fujutsu/Amdahl stuck with bipolar for one more generation of machines after IBM went to air-cooled CMOS, and they ate our lunch for a year or so as a result.
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Phil Hobbs