PDP-8s and -10s

Andy Holt andyh at andyh-rayleigh.freeserve.co.uk
Thu Jun 16 10:48:09 CDT 2005


> Gate count is not the issue.  Routing is.  The 6600 has an
> amazing design...

Indeed ... weren't the 10 PPUs multiplexed through one arithmetic unit - a
FPGA implementation would almost certainly find it simpler to have 10
non-multiplexed identical units (would up the gate count but simplify almost
everything else).

Andy



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