Holger Veit wrote:
  woodelf schrieb: 
  The cost for two additional 74s182 (usable instead of
am2902) is not
 very high,
 but there is a price in glitches and reduced clock frequency involved
 when propagating
 a ripple carry over 5 units (=20bit). You won't find the ripple carry
 effect unless you
 feed the ALU with certain pathological patterns. 
I am guessing 25 ns for ripple
carry per slice ... 125 ns delay.
24 bits would be a different story.
  You might also find the Mick&Brick book worthwhile
for your enterprise.
  
I am guessing would be if I was using 'typical' computer archtecture that
favors register to register operations.
 > using a 6809 style clock I hope to get about 1.5
Mhz with the system
> with a non-pipelined ROM. 
This is using early 70's chips so a 1 MHZ memory
cycle is still fast.
  Holger