17 Oct
2007
17 Oct
'07
6:37 p.m.
On Wednesday 17 October 2007 13:21, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 17 Oct 2007 at 12:09, Jim Battle wrote:
It may have been, as it sounds familiar to me too.
Finally, I recall seeing an article where
somebody took a pocket
calculator chip and essentially poked simulated keystrokes at it and
then decoded the LED driver output to determine the answer. It was very
slow, though, so all it saved was the space of the floating point
library code.
I remember that one. It may have been an early issue of Byte. I also wondered at the time if any speed was gained
over just running
plain old x80 code.
I guess in those days RAM was considered quite expensive?
I remember an article which I'm also pretty sure was in early Byte that talked
about how there was plenty of address space, and how 1-bit-wide storage
might be useful for some things.
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