henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (06/07/87)
> Info of interest: The iAPX 432 and I believe the 8087 (source: > A friend over here who works on MVL - Multiple Valued Logic) > had their microcode ROM based on MVL. That enabled a reduction > in chip area by 30-40% for the ROM part of the chip... Yeah, I'm dimly aware of a few other cases of this sort of thing. This is exactly the sort of specialized niche where odd techniques can prosper. You will note that the data turns into binary before it goes anywhere else, though, so this is a funny encoding technique for binary data rather than true use of multi-valued logic. -- "There is only one spacefaring Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology nation on Earth today, comrade." {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry