ITYWF that its instruction set was heavily influenced by the need to make a CPU that worked fast on the minimum of silicon.
-- Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for the rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. ? Erwin Knoll
..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.
-- -michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon
Well, that's memory for you. ;-)
The 6502 was 3,510 transistors!
-- -michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon
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'
-- Rick
How about relays !!!
;-)
Too high tech. Try this!
-- W J G
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
-- conning the most intellegent people on the planet is not easy
That's rather excellent.
Indeed :)
Perhaps we could use something to drive the blue LEDs. Hmmm, maybe a Raspberry Pi could do it :P
-- W J G
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
-- -michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon
MJM has got it.
The marble is larger then a bit. i.e. larger volume
There, fixed your post for you! :-)
-- J B Good
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."
-- J B Good
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