Any *really* homebrewing going on?

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sun Oct 4 10:48:32 1998

< Didn't Motorola make a 1-bit cmos microcomputer? Cannot remember it's pa
< number. I remember Turning machine articles in various places. One is "T

Yes the 14500 industrial control unit. It did not do serial arithmetic
but did do logical operation based on two single bit operands. It was
intended to be a controller to replace simple relay trees.

That however, is far different from systems that were bit serial as that
was done to reduce the number of redundant logic elements needed (at the
expense of speed) and often these serial machines had very long
instruction and data words with 31bits not unheard of.

Allison
Received on Sun Oct 04 1998 - 10:48:32 BST