18 Jun
2007
18 Jun
'07
8:55 p.m.
Jim Leonard wrote:
Ethan Dicks wrote:
It's made of bit-slice logic chips. I don't think you can necessarily
call them microprocessors. I believe the most popular chips were of the
AMD Am2900 family. I've used them myself. They're righteous.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-slice
Peace... Sridhar
On 6/18/07, Ensor <classiccmp at
memory-alpha.org.uk> wrote:
What is a "bit-slice" CPU? How does it differ from, say, the 8086? Hi,
Yes, four. Surely they didn't use the 6809 for the 3D
calculations, did they?
No, the 3D calculations were done by the so called "math box". This is
essentially a math co-processor made up of several (4?) AMD bit-slice
CPUs.