[rescue] How wide was the ROMP?

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Sat Jun 1 13:05:21 CDT 2002


On June 1, 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.

  Is this freely available?  I would *love* to get my paws on this and
blow it into an FPGA.  ROMPs are neat.  I haven't done much with it,
but so far I love my RT!

         -Dave

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