Texas Instruments 990 with DS10 disk drive?

From: Peter C. Wallace <pcw_at_mesanet.com>
Date: Wed Feb 23 23:39:38 2005

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, woodelf wrote:

> Tom Jennings wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, steven stengel wrote:
> >
> >> I can (probably) obtain a Texas Instruments 990, with
> >> a 5-foot desk and DS10 disk drive.
> >>
> >> I don't know much about it, or even what's all
> >> included, or what it will cost, but is this something
> >> someone here would like to have if I turn it down?
> >
> >
> > Grab it!
> >
> > Doesn't the 990 have a weird architecture, like no registers, but
> > every "page" of memory has registers in the low numbers? Some wierd
> > memory-to-memory paradigm...
> >
> A old computer in the hand is worth three on epay. :)
> It is a rather nice 16 bit design, but I belive you use the
> first 16 words in a subroutine for local registers.
> Ben Alias woodelf
>
>

No, but you could do interesting things like branch to R5 (I dont mean _at_R5)


Peter Wallace
Mesa Electronics
Received on Wed Feb 23 2005 - 23:39:38 GMT