13 Aug
2012
13 Aug
'12
1:06 p.m.
On 13 Aug 2012 at 19:18, Tony Duell wrote:
Were there ever more 'hardwired' word
provessors? -- things that
didn't use a standard CPU (or even that didn't use a CPU-type
architecture at all). Something like that would be fun.
Definitely. I think some of the early CPT models were bit-slice.
AES had some--and I believe at least one ECL model. Do you want to
count the IBM MTST or Mag card units in the list?
Many think that word processors were the result of the
microprocessor, but that's simply not true.
--Chuck