2 Nov
2001
2 Nov
'01
1:14 a.m.
Allison wrote:
The 74289 is also the same part/pinout save for
instead of open collector
they are
tristate outputs.
OK I would have used a generic 16x4 non inverting memory.
The 74382 is not an ALU, it's a carry look ahead
generator. The 74381 is an
ALU.
I have a 74F382 data sheet -- this is a ALU.
BZZZT!!! By ealy 1980 the 2901 was already
passe', as were TTL cpus.
I presume by that you really meant early (very early) 1970s as the 2901
is a 1970s part.
That is hard to say what era my cpu is from as I have to fake it from
what
I would of built in 1980's. LS TTL was just becoming popular. 8 bit
micros
where the big thing.I used a PDP8/e and a PDP8/S in 1983.
Also the 2901 is directly traceable to 74181, 74189
like parts.
The 2901 is a nice bit slice chip. If I had used it in my alu I would
have
fewer states per instruction, but then I would have needed to go to
micro-code
style architecture. This design was random logic where no PROMS need
ever be
programed.
I already have a real PDP-8. ;)
I should have known :)
Allison
Ben Franchuk.
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