--- Will Jennings <xds_sigma7_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> Um, how are the 8X305 and the PIC related? Totally different companies, and
> the 8X300 (which the 8X305 is descended from), is older than the original
> PIC, to the best of my knowledge... PIC = General Instruments, while 8X300 =
> SMS, later bought by Signetics.. or the 2650 was the SMS chip, at any rate,
> it was a Signetics chip..
The PIC is a Harvard Architecture machine (seperate instruction and data
busses, typically different widths, as opposed to a Von Neumann architecture
machine - code and data on the same bus). I think I remember reading that
the 8X300-series is also H.A.
I have that recently mentioned DAVONG controller with one on it. Proabably
a Western Digital disk controller or two, but I can't recall for certain.
-ethan
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Received on Tue Jul 10 2001 - 11:28:46 BST