1 Jan
2009
1 Jan
'09
6:29 p.m.
Jim Battle wrote:
...
I forgot to mention I had the author wrong. "Advances in Computer
Architecture," by
Myers. Mine is the second edition, 1981.
I remember
reading a computer architecture book back in the early/mid
80s, I think it was by Stone. The subject was "advanced"
architectures. One section described on attempt to build a
timesharing system for running a BASIC-like subset, and everything was
hardwired -- parsing was via gate-level state machines, not
microcode. The intended audience was college-level computer classes.
As I recall, they gave up after getting a simplified version going.
Dang, I have the book. I bought used recently it because of its i432
section, but didn't recognize it was the same book I had read so many
years ago.
Chapter 8 of "Advances in Computer Architecture" describes the SYMBOL
computer, designed and built buy Fairchild Camera, and operated at Iowa
State. Only one was built. The design was started in the mid 60s.
Here is an excerpt: