Hans Franke skrev:
 >> >BTW: the 9900 looks like a great Unicode machine - eventualy
 >> >one should drop all this unnecersary byte operation :)
 >> 9900 what? 
  >Texas Instruments TMS 9900 and it's brothers
ans sisters.
 >AK TI 990/xx
 >The CPU used for example in the TI 99/4, or the Tomy Tutor.
 >A nice clean 16 Bit design. 
  Ah, you're right about that. Shame that I've
never seen it in a decent system. 
Well, I'd considere the TI 99/4 a real nice system.
The designers can't be made responsible for the
faults of the chip design guys, who couldn't deliver
an 8 Bit verion in time.
Gruss
H.
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