If you look back through old listings of the series you’ll find alongside the familiar simple gates a host of now obsolete chips that reveal their roots in the pre-microprocessor computer ...

SMT components for easy machine placement Like the PDP-8, this machine uses a bit-serial ALU, which allows the circuit to be much smaller than the more usual ALU structure, at the expense of ...

(2) Within the CPU, the circuit that locates, analyzes and executes each program instruction residing in memory. See ALU. (3) Within the computer, the hardware that performs the transfer of data ...