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Subject: I've Got The Microprocessor Blues
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Date: Mon, 9-Feb-87 21:52:49 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  9 21:52:49 1987
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Organization: Department of Astrophysics, Princeton University
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Where does one look for information about the various microprocessors, such
as comparisons, etc, from a hardware standpoint?  The old workhorse Z-80 is
no longer good enough, either in word size or address space.  I was
considering the TI family of 99000 chips because they have a single chip
version, a fast version(25Mhz), come on a 40 pin dip, address 256k without
memory mapping, and have a sixteen bit word.  I don't know anything about
the instruction set.  I loved the LSI-11 instruction set, but DEC won't
give the time of day about it, and the address space is too small anyway.
I think at one time Byte magazine contained information of any sort, but
those days are now gone.  There must be some other place, especially with
all the recent RISC micros that must be out now that have simple instruction
sets, lots of registers, large word sizes, and big busses: all things that
make assembling programs easier.  Boy, is this erratic.  Am I making any
sense?

Brian Sutin
Department of Astrophysical Sciences/Princeton University
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