[rescue] How wide was the ROMP?

Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez lefa at cats.ucsc.edu
Sat Jun 1 14:48:13 CDT 2002


On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, 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.
> 

As far as I recall the PC/RT was a 32bit machine, so I assume most of the
data paths to be 32bit wide at least.  



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