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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: Short Vectors Versus Long Vectors
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According to Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid>:
>>>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.

The logic diagrams are in the back of the maintenance manual which
Bitsavers does have, but at the moment I don't feel like going through
and counting the gates.



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