1 Jan
2009
1 Jan
'09
7:27 p.m.
On 1 Jan 2009 at 18:56, Tony Duell wrote:
OK, suppose we take a typicel microcomputer with BASIC
in ROM and replace
the ROMs with a (very large) set of AND and OR gates to carry out the
same logic function (after all, a ROM is just a fixed AND matrix
(the address decoder) follered by a programablt OR matrix (combines the
outputs of that decoder into the desired output words). Is that a
hardware implenentation of BASIC or not :-)
Yes, if the gates were soldered onto the PCB :)
Cheers,
Chuck