On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:19:03 +1300 Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > MRAB wrote: > > By the standards of just a few years later, that's not so much a > > microcomputer as a nanocomputer! > > Although not quite as nano as another design published > in EA a couple of years earlier, the EDUC-8:
Byte Magazine once published plans for building a computer that had one instruction. I believe it was a six bit address so that would make it a max of 64 bytes. If I recall, the single instruction was "SUBTRACT AND JUMP ON CARRY." Now that's nano! -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
