Hardware experiments with CISC and RISC computer architectures

Abstract

Since 1979 a “Computer Architecture Lab” has operated in the Basser Department at Sydney University to provide hardware teaching in support of 3rd year courses in Computer Architecture. The lab was originally conceived to allow the construction of accumulator/index register computers using the popular 2900 series bit-slice technology. promley, 1979, 19861 In second year the students, mainly from Science and Engineering, will have studied assembly language programming, data structures, finite automata, and compilers, and be experienced in C/UNIX.