Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Short Vectors Versus Long Vectors Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 23:10:56 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <20240425204532.000064a1@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2024 01:10:56 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="204de98df41bd5ef7b37f05a187c8914"; logging-data="664081"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19RGrHEXoYli75QWTOMPopI" User-Agent: Pan/0.155 (Kherson; fc5a80b8) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7+mmtG7ZoOPFJ3vf4oDZpHxU2Ps= Bytes: 1511 On Sat, 27 Apr 2024 16:41:19 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote: > According to Thomas Koenig : > >>That was probably the PDP 8/S, which had (if Wikipedia is to be >>believed) around 519 logic gates. The 6502 had more. > > I can believe it. You can probably find detailed schematics, on Bitsavers or elsewhere, to confirm it. DEC published that sort of thing as a matter of course, back in those days.