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<cr1901_modern>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_V60 A strange CPU. Never heard of it before tonight, the wiki page reads like a love letter (not that I'm complaining)
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<fseidel>
cr1901_modern: wow, this might be the most enthusiastic wiki article I've ever read
<andlabs>
ah yes, the CPU in the Model 2
<andlabs>
and also found in .... ????????
<Stilett0>
MAMEDev (and friends) fought HARDDDDD to get the documentation on that CPU back in the day
<Stilett0>
Sarayan remembers ;)
<Stilett0>
In the end, we photocopied it bit by bit and stole it out of a university's engineering library
<Stilett0>
decades later, Al Kossow came across the full documentation package of basically everything in its family on eBay and gave it a good scan
<Stilett0>
should be all up on bitsavers (and its mirrors) these days
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