14 Nov
1998
14 Nov
'98
10:36 a.m.
What you want to look for is a device that could use
BCD (or another 4
bit code), and that would need a CPU, and that wouldn't gain much from
the extra instructions of the 4040. Such things are not that common.
That describes many devices that use Texas Instruments TMS100
and descendants instead of 4004's :-).
How come people are so hot after 4004's and 8008's - even ripping
up PDP-11/34a's to get at the 8008's inside, for example - when nobody
cares about the TMS100's?
Tim.