"Tony Duell" wrote:
> How long have you been on this list :-). You mean I've not waffled on
> about it recently???
I've been on this list for about 2 years, but I have to say that
sometimes I miss some of the posts because I can't cope with the
traffic.
> To answer the last part first, yes the P850 was perfectly operational
> last time I used it (about a year ago), and I don't see any reason why it
> should have failed since then.
>
> OK, to the programmer it looks like a 16 bit machine, but it's actually
> got an 8 bit ALU and 8 bit data path to memory. Every word is processed
> in 2 cycles, one of the low byte, one for the high byte.
[very interesting description of the machine deleted]
> -tony
Thanks Tony! looks like a rather interesting machine to learn
about processing units. I don't have any machine with a TTL-implemented
processor. I'll keep my eyes open for one...
carlos.
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez email: carlos_murillo_at_ieee.org
Universidad Autonoma de Manizales, Manizales, Colombia
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"I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly
underpolluted." -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank,
explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third World countries.
Received on Mon Sep 17 2001 - 11:59:16 BST