3 Oct
2007
3 Oct
'07
12:56 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 3 Oct 2007 at 10:13, Peter C. Wallace wrote:
> I think I chose the 9900 based on the Osborne book, it had the shortest
> benchmark program...
This overly-simple benchmark with varying assumptions
is one of the
biggest weaknesses of Volume II of the Osborne books. Perhaps a
But even with its weaknesses, the "Introduction to Microcomputers"
set was a valuable resource when there was little software and no MPU
was yet dominant.
I love that book, for it's overview of lesser known microprocs and being a
period snapshot of the state-of-the-art. I still find it a useful
technical reference for a lot of chips for which data is hard to come by.