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Scamp Goes On Holiday
Scamp may refer to: Computers and engineering * National Semiconductor SC/MP (pronounced Scamp), an early 8 bit microprocessor * Single-Channel Antijam Man-Portable Terminal, part of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency system * Single-Chip A-series Mainframe Processor, a single-chip implementation of the Burroughs large systems computer architecture * Special Computer APL Machine Portable, a prototype name for a single-user, portable computer concept made by IBM Research in 1973 * Standardised Compatible Audio Modular Package, an audio processor range from Audio & Design (Recording) Ltd Military * SS ''Sea Scamp'', a 1943 Type C3 ship S-A2 troop transport in World War II * SS-14 ''Scamp'', the NATO reporting name for the RT-15 theatre ballistic missile of the Soviet Union * USS ''Scamp'', several ships ** USS ''Scamp'' (SS-277), a Gato class submarine (1942–1945) ** USS ''Scamp'' (SSN-588), a Skipjack class submarine (1961–1988) Transportation * Aerosport Scamp, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Semiconductor SC/MP
National Semiconductor's INS8060, or SC/MP (pronounced ''scamp'') for Simple Cost-effective Micro Processor, is an early 8-bit microprocessor which became available in April 1976. A unique feature of the SC/MP is a daisy-chained control pin that allowed up to three SC/MP's share a single main memory to produce a multiprocessor system. To lower cost, the system used a bit-serial arithmetic logic unit (ALU) and was thus significantly slower than contemporary designs like the Intel 8080 or MOS 6502 which had parallel ALUs. Another oddity was that the program counter could only access the lower 12-bits of the 16-bit address, and the upper 4-bits had to be set using special instructions. The result was that instructions accessed main memory as sixteen 4 kB "pages" and reaching memory outside those pages required multiple instructions. The combination of slow speed and paged memory limited its attractiveness, especially in the markets that might need a multiprocessing system. It saw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
