homebrewed 32-bit cpu?

[Allison]

>
>Subject: homebrewed 32-bit cpu?
>   From: David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu>
>   Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:50:17 -0700 (PDT)
>     To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>
>
>Has anyone here pondered a 32-bit CPU in the spirit of the Magic-1?  How
>much harder would that be?

Yes, but I'll likely not build it. Harder only by a little, maybe 2x the 
parts. I find that simply bigger (more bits) often is nice thinking but I
always do the "whatif" in instruction set and the like.

When it comes to building from raw ttl I find myself specualting on 
longer words with multiple address schemes or something simple like 
PDP8 but say 16bits. 

No matter what it would be s software orphan.


Allison


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