ITYWF that its instruction set was heavily influenced by the need to make a CPU that worked fast on the minimum of silicon.
..like the 6502, which also pipelined the fetch and execute phases.
Typical instruction time was about 3 cycles--very fast for the time. IIRC it was about 12,000 transistors, and used a PLA for control.
Well, that's memory for you. ;-)
The 6502 was 3,510 transistors!
12,000 transistors was half way to an ARM1.
The ARM2 also had 25,000, but it shot up to 300,000 on the ARM3 due to the 4K of cache.
---druck
Good thing they were making transistors smaller by then. I'd hate to have to wire that up on solderless breadboards... I'm just sayin'
How about relays !!!
;-)
Too high tech. Try this!
That's one of my favourite websites.
This gives new meaning to :
1 + 1 = 10 for large volume of 1
Eh?
I also like this device:
there are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary those who dont
That's rather excellent.
Indeed :)
Perhaps we could use something to drive the blue LEDs. Hmmm, maybe a Raspberry Pi could do it :P
I'm familiar with that one, just not the other.
Why is o6 afraid of o7? Because o7 o10 o11.
Ooh, you're so ... on topic.
pi = 22/7 for large values of pi
MJM has got it.
The marble is larger then a bit. i.e. larger volume
There, fixed your post for you! :-)
This, at least, includes the hint of the number base with a letter 'o' prefix. The 'joke' only becomes apparent when you convert to decimal notation:
"Why is 6 afraid of 7?" "Because 7 8 9."
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