20 Dec
2007
20 Dec
'07
1:57 a.m.
Robert Nansel wrote:
I'm prototyping DTL NAND gates and flip-flops
today...
There is a DTL AND-NOR construct requiring only one transistor that was fairly
common back in the discrete days if you're interested or unaware. Should save
transistors, but wants a neg-bias supply.
Anybody up for a contest to see who can design the
most powerful
general-purpose digital computer given these constraints? I guess
we'd have to figure out what "powerful" means in this context, given
that it's likely never to exceed a few KIPS.
Sounds like fun, even if only to do the design, but I think I must refrain
from getting sidetracked from other projects that
I've got to finish this
winter or they'll just languish for longer
('ooooh, look .. another shiny
object' syndrome).