[time-nuts] Rom Expansion for HP5370B

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <466FDFC184A3469EAC08EEE5EE36CDBE at hm.clpa.com>, "Bob Camp" writes:

>Is the CPU strictly an I/O machine or does it do any of the timing for the 
>counter?

All the counting is hardware.

Basically the CPU arms, waits, reads registers, does math, puts on
display and sends display over GPIB if asked to.

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