AMD bit-slice machines

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Sat, 2005-12-31 09:10:35 -0700, e.stiebler <emu at ecubics.com> wrote:
> Richard wrote:
> >This is really interesting!  I had no idea that DEC used them for some
> >of their processors -- personally I find that fascinating as I always
> >pictured DEC as a "NIH" shop.
> 
> The am2901 is just a chip. The smarts are in the microcode ;-)

Is there some really interesting documentation available for these
chips and maybe some microcode for some really simple task?  I'd like
to really understand how bit-slice CPUs do work to form something like
a VAX CPU.

MfG, JBG

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