Interesting book

From: ben franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Sun Dec 5 12:18:12 2004

William Maddox wrote:
> I recently picked up an interesting book, entitled "The Logic Desgign of
> Computers: An Introduction", by M. Paul Chinitz. Mr. Chinitz was
> Director of Training at Univac from 1953 to 1956, and it shows -- even
> though this book was published in 1981. Seriously, the design style in
> the book is straight out of the 50's and 60's. Although the book makes
> numerous references to standard TTL logic components, he does just about
> everything with simple gates and RS flip-flops, and devotes space to
> such dated topics (for a book of its scope) as 1's complement
> arithmetic, serial arithmetic, and delay lines. Proponents of a
> straightforward fully-synchronous design style based on MSI, like
> Winkel, Prosser, and Mano, would be horrified to see students taught to
> gate clocks in 1981. The book uses a simple 8-bit 1-address
> architecture as an example, using a multiphase clocking scheme and RS
> flip-flops with preclear. All a wonderful throwback to the days when
> every gate and transistor counted.
>
> I picked up a copy at a swap meet, misplaced it, ordered another from an
> internet used bookseller, and then found my original copy. I thus now
> have an extra copy of this book. It is available for $5 plus shipping if
> anyone is interested.
>
> --Bill

I'll take a copy of the book, but do you have anything else for sale
so I can get all shipped in the same order.
  PS. I will take some 74F382's on second thought, since
they have the ripple carry and ovrflow bits. I thinking about
14 pieces.
Ben.
Received on Sun Dec 05 2004 - 12:18:12 GMT