Re: 70's computers

[Al Kossow via cctalk]

On 10/25/18 10:45 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:

> Didn't at least one of the more popular MPU designs employ a serial ALU?
>  TMS9900?

You've mentioned this a couple of times.

Are you confusing this with the serial CRU I/O scheme TI computers used?
I double-checked and the 960,980 and 990 minicomputers are all 16 bit parallel 
machines.

The 9980/1 and 9995 had an 8 bit memory bus but internally are 16.

I double-checked, and the TMS9900 has a 16 bit ALU (page 6 in
TMS_9900_Microprocessor_Data_Manual_May76.pdf on bitsavers)