<
processor> A
processor, with 16-bit addressing,
registers
and data paths and a 1-bit serial
ALU. The
F100-
L could
only access 32K of memory (one address bit was used for
indirection). It was designed by a British company for the
British Military.
The unique feature of the
F100-
L was that it had a complete
control bus available for a
coprocessor. Any instruction
the
F100-
L couldn't decode was sent directly to the
coprocessor for processing. Applications for coprocessors at
the time were limited, but the design is still used in modern
processors, such as the
National Semiconductor 32000 series.
The
disk operating system was written by Alec Cawley.
(2007-05-19)