28 May
2016
28 May
'16
6:49 p.m.
On 2016-May-28, at 6:22 PM, drlegendre . wrote:
Could someone also clarify what is meant by "gates" in this sense? Are we
talking about the gates (G) of a FET, as in Gate, Drain and Source - or are
we referring to the composite logic gates (NAND, etc.), built up of
multiple bipolar - or MOS - transistors?
Yes, they're talking FET gates, the internal registers would operate under the same
basic principle as DRAM does.
Other early microprocs used dynamic registers, I forget which, perhaps others can list
them.
Far from the first time a processor had dynamic registers.
I've been told that the IBM 709 used inductive (rather than capacitive) storage for
the main registers.