22 Jun
2007
22 Jun
'07
10:32 a.m.
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Chuck Guzis wrote:
A more conventional, but still strange micro design
was the
SMS/Signetics 8X300/305 microcontroller. Bipolar, 16-bit and
remarkably brain-dead. Western Digital used it on its early hard
disk controllers.
BTI used one as the heart of the SCP in the BTI8000. You could fry an
egg on the thing, and yes, it was truly brain-dead.
Cheers,
Chris.
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