Language for the ages

[Chuck Guzis]

On 10/20/2005 at 3:30 PM Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

>GI CP1610?

DING!  Give the man a seegar!

Back when I was fooling with 16-bit micro processors, I first looked at the
National PACE and then the CP1600 (there weren't too many choices back
then).  I wirewrapped up an S-100 board for each.  CP1600 had a nice
architecture, but a screwy 10-bit wide instruction word (even though data
was 16 bits).  So instructions that should have required only 2 words
actually took 3.  The PACE was just too weird for me--and both were really
slow, particularly when run off of an 8 bit bus.

Cheers,
Chuck