1 Dec
2021
1 Dec
'21
5:18 a.m.
On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 18:10, Jon Steinhart <jon(a)fourwinds.com> wrote:
Humm writes:
OK, I'll try again. For anybody familiar with Portland, Oregon, it's the
difference between driving in Northwest where there's a rectangular grid
numbered in one direction and alphabetical in the other, and approaching
the Ross Island Bridge from the west side which appears to be designed by
someone following a goat while tripping their brains out. One can address
Northwest Portland quite easily unlike getting onto the Ross Island Bridge.
So - and as I say this as someone who has no direct experience with this
level of logic - everything is directly addressable but the difference is
in how you get there?
-Henry
Quoth Jon Steinhart:
>arnold(a)skeeve.com writes:
>> Can someone please explain why it's called "random" logic?
Discrete
>> logic I understand (more or less), but I've not heard the term
"random"
>> used in this context before now.
>
>Well, as a recovered random logic designer, I think that the name comes
>from there being no particular structure to the logic. Many parts of
>logic design are very regular, think memory. But that regularity
doesn't
exist
when, for example, decoding irregular instructions.
Now that’s a “random” definition.
--
Humm