1 Oct
2007
1 Oct
'07
2:01 p.m.
On 1 Oct 2007 at 16:11, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I never got one, never played around with one, but I
don't think I'm missing
much.
I don't know--for its time (1976), a 16-bit CPU with hardware
multiply and divide isn't too shabby. A bit slow because its 16-word
register file (relocatable) was kept in main memory (operations
referencing a register were directed to the appropriate location by a
pointer registrer called the Workspace Pointer).
Not exciting, true, but there were certainly more boring MPUs out
there at the time.
TI did make an I2L version of the TMS9900, but the most I was able to
get from the local TI sales rep was a bunch of datasheets--and no
samples. I gathered that the I2L version was reserved for the
defense industry.
Cheers,
Chuck