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>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.


This was taken from a quote by Sir Clive Sinclair (he of the ZX Spectrum
fame). The link is at: http://www.cdworld.co.uk/zx2000/clive.html

Luis.