10 Oct
2022
10 Oct
'22
7:35 a.m.
On Sat, 8 Oct 2022, Paul Kimpel wrote:
> modify a lot of the software. Timing dependencies aside,
> G-15 instructions didn't have addresses -- they had
> "timing numbers" that effectively told the hardware how
> long to wait before reading or writing a word on the drum.
Well, No, I believe that each instruction had the address of
the next instruction in it. That allowed you to jump to
another track for the next instruction in the sequence.
Instruction addresses were not that many bits.
Jon