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How would you hook up 64K of RAM to an 8008? Through some shift registers?


SPI RAM bit-banged via some IO ports is pretty easy, same as here: http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=35.%20Linux4004


Awesome, thanks for the link! I didn't remember that aspect of the 4004 project.

This would be a pretty amazing project. I wonder if you could get existing Uxn/Varvara applications like the Left text editor or Orca to run fast enough to be usable. Presumably for Orca you'd want to hook up external sound hardware rather than trying to bitbang the sound on the 8008, and I guess the same is even more true of a framebuffer.

If you were bitbanging RAM access at 7kbps it might be hard to get it to run instructions fast enough to be usable, though.


i think 8008 would be much faster :)

i'll look into this




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