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From: azia@utzoo.UUCP (Anton J Aylward  A/S)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: 4 -> 8 -> 8/16 -> 16 -> etc.
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Date: Thu, 3-May-84 13:54:55 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  3 13:54:55 1984
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Back in the days when "micros" was a term used by fashion writers,
and the 8080/6800 were so new you had to have an inside line
to get any solid info on how to make them work, I was playing round
with 'bit-slice'.

Bit-slice was new then, as well.  National and AMD had their slice
chips, Intel had a something they couldn't have like 'cos it didn't
survive as the 2900 and IMP families did.

For my sins, (looking back, I think this was one of them) I had the
misfortune to wirewrap a set of those slices, together with LOTS of
random logic ('cos there weren't the slice support chips) to emulate
a NOVA.  (The computer, not the car !) Why a NOVA ?  Cos some idiot
before me had worked out the microcode.