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Dogzilla said...

My limited experience with microcontrollers is that cost and function are the primary goals, performance isn't as important.

It seems that HP used this chip to bang bits a lot more than add numbers, so that makes sense. I wonder why at some point later on, they didn't follow on with another design with a more complete ALU?

Sep 19, 2020, 1:19:08 PM

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