Anyone playing with the 8x300

[Allison]

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>Subject: Re: Anyone playing with the 8x300
>   From: shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com
>   Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 21:36:10 -0400
>     To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>
>> also must have done a bitslice designs at one time or another
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>I always thought of the 8x300 as a near-bitslice processor... bipolar,
>data port, etc.  While it doesn't chain together to make bigger
>wordsizes like AMD2901/Intel 3002, it really was a programmable
>sequencer very much like those bitslice parts.
>
>Tim.

think of it as two 2901s and a 2911 with fixed sequencing 
and instruction decode rom.  Fast, but strange to program.

Allison