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Nice 
One question that brings to mind - how do you find out what a custom chip of that age is? I mean, that's a pretty specific description for a 30 year old custom chip...
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| debs3759 wrote: | | One question that brings to mind - how do you find out what a custom chip of that age is? I mean, that's a pretty specific description for a 30 year old custom chip... |
It's not a custom chip, it only has custom instruction set.
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debs3759
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| gshv wrote: | | debs3759 wrote: | | One question that brings to mind - how do you find out what a custom chip of that age is? I mean, that's a pretty specific description for a 30 year old custom chip... |
It's not a custom chip, it only has custom instruction set.
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That's something new to me then Does that mean that it's a standard chip which used something like microcode to set up the instruction set?
| CPUShack wrote: | | and I have a book which has a brief datasheet on it. |
That explains it then Just goes to show what a dedicated collector can accumulate
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Is this a general purpose CPU? There is other variants of this chip T3444A, T3444BS, T3444D:
http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~nkomatsu/diskif/T3444A.html
T3444A is floppy disk controller, T3444B seems to be magnetic tape controller if I understand babelfish translation correctly. |
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gshv
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I have the same book as John has, and it doesn't give much details about the chip. It does mention two pre-programmed versions of the microcontroller: T3444A floppy-disk controller and T3444B digital cassette controller (babelfish was correct). The chip has 256 x 24bits ROM, I guess this memory is used to store both the instruction set and program.
BTW, the book is "Microprocessor data manual" by Dave Bursky.
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