14 Jul
1997
14 Jul
'97
12:45 a.m.
:> Technology PMOS NMOS
This is wrong. both are N-channel silicone gate NMOS.
:> # of Instructions 69 70
What this doesn't tell is that the F8 had a very weak instruction set.
doing something like xoring a byte was tedious to say the least. The
8080 instruction set was far more general.
The F8 was aimed at the market that the 8048 and 8051 would later
dominate, IE: single chip MPUs of general application.
Also april '78 KILOBAUD had an article speculating on how to use a VB
system as a cheap graphic peripheral.
Allison