I think you're right - I hadn't realized such a shift from the 4051, but makes sense. Demos of the original 4051 that I've seen, the system seemed "painfully slow." Updated to try to clarify, thanks!
On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 7:12 AM Tony Duell <ard.p850...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 1:06 PM Steve Lewis via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > VCF SW was this past weekend near Dallas, Texas. > > > > Here are some highlights from my perspective. > > > > https://voidstar.blog/vcf-southwest-2023/ > > > > > > Most photos you can click to enlarge (Edge has bugs with WordPress, you > may > > need to scroll up/down a little bit to get the click thing working) > > I may be talking nonsense, but you describe the Tektronix 4054 as a > 6800-based system. I thought the 4051 used that processor, but the > 4052 and 4054 used a board of AM2900-series bitslice chips that > implement a processor with an instruction set similar to the 6800 but > with no BCD operations and some 16 bit extensions. > > -tony >
