8 Mar
2011
8 Mar
'11
12:14 p.m.
On 8 Mar 2011 at 11:56, Brent Hilpert wrote:
Looking through the Osborne book (Introduction to
Microcomputers -
Some Real Products / 1976), here's another to add to the list: the
MicroNova/9440 microprocessor ca 1977 had built-in 16-bit multiply and
divide instructions.
Can anyone comment on how much use or production the MicroNova or
Fairchild 9440 chips actually saw?
I mentioned the MicroNova.
If you weren't DoD-related, you could forget getting the 9440, 9445,
9450...CPUs. Fairchild wouldn't give you the time of day on those.
Same for the I2L versions of the TI 9900.
--Chuck