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From: jthomp@hemaneh.Central.Sun.COM (Jim Thompson  Sun Dallas SWAN Engineer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Was *this* the first RISC chip?
Keywords: Hewlett-Packard, microprocessor, RISC
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Date: 8 Mar 89 01:28:34 GMT
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In article <1068@cantuar.UUCP> greg@cantuar.UUCP (G. Ewing) writes:
>During a recent fit of idle curiosity, I came across some articles
>describing the microprocessor used in many of HP's handheld
>calculators from the HP-35 on.
>... Ideally I'd like enough info to write a
>simulator for it (okay, so I'm wierd). The articles I have (from
>the HP Journal) don't go into much detail.
 

Hmm, I've got one (a HP-41 simulator), around here somewhere.
If I remember correctly, it even outputs bar-code (TeX source),
so you can load the programs into your real HP.  You could even
use 'symbolic programming' (peek & poke on the 41).  Last time I
worked on it, I was attempting a window based tool for it.
(The ultimate test would be making the goose fly backwards, no?)
Perhaps I should look at putting it together and giving it
to Rich Salz?  Naw.. who would want to run HP-41 simulations 
on their Cray?		:-)


Jim Thompson					 	jthomp@central.sun.com
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