Practical Electronics CHAMP/Tangerine Microtan 65

From: ben franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Thu May 22 20:11:00 2003

Dwight K. Elvey wrote:

>
> Hi
> All make the assumption that you must make 8 bit/16bit
> or, in your case, 20 bit. One can make a 1 bit alu that
> can have data width controlled by instruction. It may
> not be fast at math but much processor time is consumed
> just looking at true/false. If your model doesn't require
> passing data through the alu for mem/mem and mem/io moves,
> a single bitter makes sense.
> ( My Nicolet is a 20 bit machine. )

Darn! All the good computer names are taken. :)
Do you have any more information?

> Dwight

Some day I would like to see a DECIMAL computer in
TLL or FPGA like the early decimal machines.
Ben.
Received on Thu May 22 2003 - 20:11:00 BST