Elf99 - rebirth of a classic

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Mon Nov 9 22:06:53 1998

< but it was a particularly twisted architecture that only a TRW satellit
< programmer could love.

An aside to all this... The 1802 was a very strange chip. It was by far
the crudest and yet the easiest to program all at once. My pet peve is
there are holes in the instruction set where a reciprocal instruction
would have been nice but wasn't there. It redeeming feature was it was
CMOS and the only other CMOS part at that time was the 6100 (PDP-8).

What surprized me is that the 1802 (maybe the 05 too?) are still
available. The 05 is desireable as it has the hard coded SCRT
instuction (more like a procedure!).

Allison
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