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		TedDoesntTalk on Aug 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A one-bit processor explained: reverse-engineering... With all of the supporting chips required (instruction counter, etc), why not design something in TTL? What was the advantage of this chip?

kens on Aug 17, 2022 [–]

Well, that's probably why the chip wasn't super-popular :-) The chip reduces your part count somewhat -- it would take a bunch of TTL chips to replace it -- but it's not like a microcontroller that solves your problem entirely.

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