28 Jun
2007
28 Jun
'07
7:59 a.m.
From: "Billy Pettit" <Billy.Pettit at
wdc.com>
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But nobody got into the really weird internals that have made the industry
so fascinating. Go back to the real early days, like the Atlas, that let
you build your instruction set from scratch using micro-code. Nobody
seemed
to remember that most of the late 50's and early 60's used 40 bits as a
standard. What about the MicroData machines with a build your own
instructions on the fly?
Hi
I did mention my Nicolet 20 bit. The ALU had 5 ports that you could
use 3 at a time to create different functions. It used a mixture of
DTL and TTL.
Dwight
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