[rescue] How wide was the ROMP?

[Brian Hechinger]

On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 11:39:33AM -0500, Scott Newell wrote:
> Just found a vhdl clone of the IBM ROMP (as used in the PC/RT?), but
> they've described it as having an 8 bit data bus and 24 bit address
> bus...sound right?  I would have guessed 16 bit data bus, minimum, but they
> may have reduced the bus widths to ease synthesis.

i'm almost 100% sure it was a 16-bit data bus.  but it has been a VERY long
time since i've even thought about the ROMP or the RT in any serious manner,
so i could be remembering wrong.

-brian
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