On 19 May 99 at 18:58, Tony Duell wrote:
> > > I do consider it 'collecting', don't worry. I guess I just prefer large
> > > boards of TTL that I can understand to large ASICs that I can't....
> > >
> > > -tony
> > >
> > >
> > As I said I'm not from Texas, so BIG don't mean shit to me.
>
> I don't like minis _because_ they're big, I like them because they're
> made out of simple components that I can understand, like NAND gates and
> flip-flops, and all the connections to these gates and flip-flops are
> accessible on pins of chips (or of transistors or valves :-)). From what
> you say below, I suspect you have similar likings...
>
Yes, elegance and simplicity of design attracts me in all things.
> >
> > The Dec PDP8/e attraction goes way back to my digital course when a friend
> > gave me a DEC 8/e maintenance manual which outlined the CPU processes with the
>
> The 8/e maintenance manual is one of the best hardware manuals that I
> own. It describes how the 8/e (and its memory + peripherals, the full set
> is 3 books) work at gate level. And it's clear!.
>
> It's a very understandable description of a real processor that runs real
> programs. I learnt a heck of a lot from these books.
>
> -tony
>
The one I have is the "Processor Maintenance Manual" Vol 1 . A lovely book.
One of my most prized computer texts. No comparison to most of the badly
written, mispelled, an in many cases uninformative texts that pass for manuals
these days.
ciao larry
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Received on Thu May 20 1999 - 08:17:14 BST