4 Nov
2008
4 Nov
'08
10:50 a.m.
On 4 Nov 2008 at 5:51, Robert Borsuk wrote:
Don't know if you guys found this but I did find
one computer
reference.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=196
and the data sheet on bit savers for the chips(thank you Al).
1983? I was trying to get the attention of the Fairchild sales
department around 1978. You'd have thought with DG not selling the
MicroNova CPU to outside customers and the 9440 being a Nova-like
chip that Fairchild could have cleaned up. There weren't many other
16-bit chips at the time (e.g. NS PACE, GI CP1600, TI TMS9900). But
Fairchild seemed not to be interested in selling the stuff.
My understanding is that the 9440 is an "almost" Nova in that it
lacks certain features needed to run Nova software. Can anyone
verify this?
Cheers,
Chuck