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From: ford@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Space Wars  [was "True Multitasking"]
Message-ID: <1326@crash.CTS.COM>
Date: Fri, 3-Jul-87 07:54:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: crash.1326
Posted: Fri Jul  3 07:54:57 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 13:22:54 EDT
References: <8706040024.AA10895@cogsci.berkeley.edu> <163@sugar.UUCP> <2952@zen.berkeley.edu> <1306@crash.CTS.COM> <2348@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: ford@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto)
Followup-To: rec.games.video
Organization: Crash TS, El Cajon, CA
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Summary: Random TTL CPU
Xref: mnetor rec.games.video:250 comp.sys.amiga:6192

In article <2348@hoptoad.uucp> farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren) writes:
>In article <1306@crash.CTS.COM> ford@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto) writes:
>>
>>By the way, this arcade version was done entirely in discrete hardware;
>> [...]
>
>Not true.  The Space Wars arcade game was based on a TI bit-slice processor.

According to the Space Wars service manual, "The CPU (central processing
unit) logic board used in Space Wars in not a micro-processor, but rather a
dedicated TTL processor [...]".  It did use "normal" ROMs, but the CPU itself
was made of random TTL.

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