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On 06/10/2010 04:52, erikc wrote:

> Unbelievably baroque architecture from the 1960s/1970s.  Rumour has it
> that the original "PIC" was a "Peripheral Interface Controller" (that
> General Instruments, later Microchip, bought rights to) for some
> mainframe computer.  Going by the published instruction set, I think
> it was originally designed to be built as cheap as possible with a
> minimum gate count - gates in those days were either discrete
> components or small-scale ICs (like 7400s and the like).


It was in fact designed as a peripheral chip for their 16-bit 
microprocessor.

Leon
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Leon Heller
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