AMD bit-slice machines

Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw at lug-owl.de> wrote: At the application-specific level, the classic reference is "Mick and Brick". I think there's a PDF floating around on the web but I don't know exactly where. Bitsavers has lots of AMD2901 stuff including an app note showing how to build a faster 8080A out of 'em, with some comments about tradeoffs etc. http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/amd/ The KS10 microcode is on the web, as well as some drawings, but it's not nearly as accessible as a simple micro like the 8080A. VAXen are necessarily much more complicated, although the tradeoffs as to circuitry vs microcode vs instruction emulation will be common to any microcoded implementation. Bob Supnik has some non-2901-specific comments and important personal narrative on his VAX and PDP-11 designs at http://simh.trailing-edge.com/dsarchive.html Tim. Tim.