Interesting book

[William Maddox]

I recently picked up an interesting book, entitled "The Logic Desgign of 
Computers: An Introduction", by M. Paul Chinitz.  Mr. Chinitz was 
Director of Training at Univac from 1953 to 1956, and it shows -- even 
though this book was published in 1981.  Seriously, the design style in 
the book is straight out of the 50's and 60's. Although the book makes 
numerous references to standard TTL logic components, he does just about 
everything with simple gates and RS flip-flops, and devotes space to 
such dated topics (for a book of its scope) as 1's complement 
arithmetic, serial arithmetic, and delay lines.  Proponents of a 
straightforward fully-synchronous design style based on MSI, like 
Winkel, Prosser, and Mano, would be horrified to see students taught to 
gate clocks in 1981.  The book uses a simple 8-bit 1-address 
architecture as an example, using a multiphase clocking scheme and RS 
flip-flops with preclear.  All a wonderful throwback to the days when 
every gate and transistor counted.

I picked up a copy at a swap meet, misplaced it, ordered another from an 
internet used bookseller, and then found my original copy.  I thus now 
have an extra copy of this book. It is available for $5 plus shipping if 
anyone is interested.

--Bill