TTL computing

From: Thilo Schmidt <thilo.schmidt_at_unix-ag.uni-siegen.de>
Date: Fri Apr 12 17:17:09 2002

On 12-Apr-2002 Tony Duell wrote:
> I think what I've been trying to say for the last <n> messages is that
> microcoded systems are necessarily finite state machines (by any
> reasonable definition) and that also the boundary between 'microcoded
> machines' and 'any old finite state machine' is not that clear.
And I've been trying to say that microcoded machines are just another
way to describe finite state machines and what can be gained through
this description...
In fact the first thing I wrote was that they are mathematically
equivalent.

This whole discussion seems to have gotten slightly out of control... ;-)

bye

        Thilo
Received on Fri Apr 12 2002 - 17:17:09 BST