Dwight Elvey said:
Looking at ideas for a minimal computer, did you see:
http://www.tu-harburg.de/~setb0209/cpu/
http://eagle.eku.edu/faculty/styer/oisc.html has a description of a bunch
of single-instruction machines. Take a look at the ones which require only
byte moves and a memory-mapped program counter.
Roger Ivie
ivie(a)cc.usu.edu