On 2016-May-28, at 6:22 PM, drlegendre . wrote: > > Could someone also clarify what is meant by "gates" in this sense? Are we > talking about the gates (G) of a FET, as in Gate, Drain and Source - or are > we referring to the composite logic gates (NAND, etc.), built up of > multiple bipolar - or MOS - transistors?
Yes, they're talking FET gates, the internal registers would operate under the same basic principle as DRAM does. Other early microprocs used dynamic registers, I forget which, perhaps others can list them. Far from the first time a processor had dynamic registers. I've been told that the IBM 709 used inductive (rather than capacitive) storage for the main registers.