Tony Duell wrote:
>
> On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Francois Auradon wrote:
>
> > Allison J Parent wrote:
> >
> > > That was 64bits of internal storage and that is different from a 64bit
> > > parallel CPU. Also 613khz is slow.
> >
> > I'll have to do some research to back that number up. I picked it up on
> > a web page and never actually double checked it. I've seen many
> > allusions to the slow clock speed of the HP85 and I'm pretty sure it's
> > below the 1 MHz.
>
> Are you sure you're talking about the HP85? The HP71 used the Saturn
> processor which had 64bit registers (although with a 4 bit ALU and 4 bit
> bus), and clocked it at 614kHz according to the tech manual I have. Sounds
> very much like it.
>
> > Francois Auradon
>
> -tony
As I said I'll need to do some research. Since I don't have the original
manual for the HP85 my only source of info is the net. Gotta get alta
vista to work.
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Received on Mon Nov 10 1997 - 21:02:03 GMT