Philips P850 (Was: Classic Computers vs...) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Sep 2001

"Tony Duell" wrote:
...
  How long have you been on this list :-). You mean
I've not waffled on
 about it recently??? 
I've been on this list for about 2 years, but I have to say that
sometimes I miss some of the posts because I can't cope with the 
traffic.

...
  To answer the last part first, yes the P850 was
perfectly operational
 last time I used it (about a year ago), and I don't see any reason why it
 should have failed since then.

 OK, to the programmer it looks like a 16 bit machine, but it's actually
 got an 8 bit ALU and 8 bit data path to memory. Every word is processed
 in 2 cycles, one of the low byte, one for the high byte. 
[very interesting description of the machine deleted]

...
  -tony 
Thanks Tony! looks like a rather interesting machine to learn
about processing units.  I don't have any machine with a TTL-implemented
processor.  I'll keep my eyes open for one...

carlos.

-- 
Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez    email: carlos_murillo(a)ieee.org
Universidad Autonoma de Manizales, Manizales, Colombia
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"I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly
underpolluted." -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank,
explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third World countries.