3 Nov
2005
3 Nov
'05
6:41 a.m.
On 11/3/2005 at 7:00 AM Jos Dreesen wrote:
Much too big to actually build in TTL.
Consider the very old Packard Bell PB250--22 bit words, fewer than 400
transistors and 2500 diodes, 63 instructions. Power consumption about 40
watts, exclusive of I/O:
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61-p.html
The trick, of course, is to use bit-serial methods. It seems to me that
one could greatly simplify construction of a homebrew machine that way.
We're not doing this for speed, right?
Cheers,
Chuck