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The concept isn't far removed from the S-100 [1]bus as seen in the Altair 8800, and you could probably find numerous other examples, weren't early IBM mainframe
by benj111 8y ago
The concept isn't far removed from the S-100 [1]bus as seen in the Altair 8800, and you could probably find numerous other examples, weren't early IBM mainframes made up of standardised cards with a few nand gates on each?
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-100_bus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-100_bus
- Someone 8y agoYes, early IBM CPUs were made of standardized cards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Solid_Logic_Technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Solid_Logic_Technology. It references http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/logic/SY22-2798-2_LogicBlocks_AutomatedLogicDiagrams_SLT,SLD,ASLT,MST_TO_Oct71.pdf http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/logic/SY22-2798-2_LogicBloc... which has lots of detail)
- zeckalpha 8y agoAlso, early Sun/SGI were modular on Multibus.