Re: For the fun of it

[carbide@egine.com]

Michael J. Mahon wrote:

>
> Tom Osborne introduced the "algorithmic state machine" at HP Labs, but
> you should know that it was the basis of Woz's Disk ][ Controller!
>
> http://www.hp9825.com/html/osborne_s_story.html
>
> Quite a few people in the mid- to late-1970's were figuring out that
> ROMs plus latches made a nice programmable state machine.  There was
> even a school of thought that ROMs would replace most logic--which
> was not exactly right, but not all wrong, either.  ;-)
>

That was very interesting, I read the whole thing. What exciting times.
 I was just a young tech, and didn't lift my nose from the production
grindstone to see what was happening  around me. 

-Paul