[cctalk] Re: Intel 4004(sp?)

2023-11-23 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Wed, 22 Nov 2023, Fred Cisin wrote: An absurd argument: It could be argued that the 8085, rather than being designed from scratch was simply a modification of the 8080. Perhaps significant modifications, but nevertheless modifications, not redesign from scratch. 8080 and 8085 are essentia

[cctalk] Re: Intel 4004

2023-11-23 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
Great history infoEd# Sent from AOL on Android On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 12:45 AM, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: As the one who helped Ray introduce the F14A CADC microprocessor to the public back in 1998, I'm intimately familiar with the story of its creation as well as its capabili

[cctalk] Re: Intel 4004(sp?)

2023-11-23 Thread dwight via cctalk
The 4040 was more of an enhanced 4004. It had a deeper stack ( 4004 was only 3 levels ), It had interrupt capabilities and a second register bank. The mulplexed bus was almost identical except the 4040 had one additional bus operation. I forget the exact difference. Still, people seem to think th

[cctalk] It's been a while - retirement project

2023-11-23 Thread Dave Dunfield via cctalk
Hi, this is "Dave Dunfield" - best known here for being the site owner of "Daves Old Computers" and the author of "ImageDisk" No longer have the email I used to use to access cctalk... (hence the change) Just in case anyone is interested: I've been working on a "retirement" project: I am publis

[cctalk] Hayes numeric codes

2023-11-23 Thread RETRO Innovations via cctalk
I received a bug report today concerning tcpser (the Linux/Unix/Windows/MacOS modem emulator) and numeric response codes. https://github.com/go4retro/tcpser/issues/31 I knew long ago that not all codes and commands were common/consistent among modem manufacturers, but I guess I didn't realize