Return-Path: Received: from [76.190.200.141] (account rob HELO Rob-Logan-Power-Mac-G5.local) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.11) with ESMTPSA id 2283549; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:41:20 -0400 Message-ID: <46CFB31D.5010909@Logan.com> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:42:05 -0400 From: Rob Logan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: [LML] Re: fallability in the digital age References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > The FAA has recently decided that graphics processors are evil I'm confused... GPUs and Altera PLDs do contain "code" that can act much like an ALD found in any CPU.. but the errata sheets on cpus aren't tiny, so why aren't CPUs held to the same standards as a GPU? gate count?