help - 11/34 console problem -- first LA output

Gooijen, Henk henk.gooijen at oce.com
Tue Nov 8 01:57:19 CST 2005


Allison wrote: 

> Well save for wrap around.  The stack on 8008 is strictly 
> address and as already said 14bits (the 8008 only addresses 
> 16k!!) and 8 levels deep.
> It was a challenge programming it to figure out where you 
> came from and also not blow the stack.  Still it beat the 
> design we had before it as that was around 220 pcs of TTL 
> sequential logic.
> 
> The interrupt/reset logic was pretty strange too.  
> 
> Allison

I am glad that DEC threw away the 220 ICs design,
and put in the 8008 :-)

- Henk.

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