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From: Humm <hummsmith42@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Encoding an ISA: Random Logic vs. Control Stores
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 21:45:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yaabjh0kjYlDq7N5@beryllium.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202111301850.1AUIovEG006894@darkstar.fourwinds.com>

Quoth Jon Steinhart:
>arnold@skeeve.com writes:
>> Can someone please explain why it's called "random" logic? Discrete
>> logic I understand (more or less), but I've not heard the term "random"
>> used in this context before now.
>
>Well, as a recovered random logic designer, I think that the name comes
>from there being no particular structure to the logic.  Many parts of
>logic design are very regular, think memory.  But that regularity doesn't
>exist when, for example, decoding irregular instructions.

Now that’s a “random” definition.

-- 
Humm

  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-30 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-30  8:07 pbirkel
2021-11-30 15:19 ` Ron Natalie
2021-11-30 15:30   ` arnold
2021-11-30 15:39     ` Ralph Corderoy
2021-11-30 18:50     ` Jon Steinhart
2021-11-30 21:45       ` Humm [this message]
2021-11-30 23:07         ` Jon Steinhart
2021-11-30 23:18           ` Henry Bent
2021-12-01  5:00             ` Jon Steinhart
2021-12-01  6:27               ` pbirkel
2021-12-01 16:42                 ` ron minnich
2021-12-01 17:08                   ` Ron Natalie
2021-12-01 21:56                   ` [TUHS] Encoding an ISA Warren Toomey
2021-12-01 13:59 [TUHS] Encoding an ISA: Random Logic vs. Control Stores Paul Ruizendaal
2021-12-01 14:55 Douglas McIlroy
2021-12-01 20:27 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-12-01 21:14 ` Lawrence Stewart
2021-12-01 22:09   ` Jon Steinhart

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