[time-nuts] Rom Expansion for HP5370B

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4D61DE84.3050403 at xtra.co.nz>, Bruce Griffiths writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 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.
>>    
>Not so for the 5370A (was this changed for the 5370B?), the 16 bit N0 
>counter length is extended in software when and if required.

Yes, but that is a rather low frequency deal, I wouldn't call that
timecritical at all.

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