@NanoRaptor Later PPC-based iterations were exclusive to Honeywell, who used for their space heaters, snow melting systems etc.
Was there a stepped variant to clear other components?
Like a CPU version of Escher's Ascending Descending staircase?
@NanoRaptor Damn, I knew I missed a variant I needed to support in my compiler code. But without CPU it will be challenging!
@NanoRaptor I read that at least three times before I realised who had posted it. #GotMeAgain
@NanoRaptor they did however excel at implementing circular buffers.
The elusive zero core processor. I love it.
no longer@why 
@NanoRaptor i was thinking way to long about this until i realized this was you
@NanoRaptor unironically a thing that produces all the cpu signals but always acts as if it executed a branch to the same address could be useful
@NanoRaptor it was powering the Macintosh NC. NC stood for No Computer.
Thanks!
it is wonderful to see this stuff by you back!
@NanoRaptor the awesome thing was that you could overclock the hell out of those and they worked just as well.
@NanoRaptor The most curious turn came when The Dump from the die became the coprocessor in a Bandai Pippin.
It was nicknamed Apple Core, and possibly (somewhat apocryphal) inspired Intel years later for their naming scheme.
@NanoRaptor As one of my college professors once said when asked whether we could use a second Motorola 68HC11 in our design project: “Two times zero still equals zero.”
@NanoRaptor We laugh at that, but there are companies selling full IC packages without any actual dies inside. They even have stuf like DIP-2... and not necessarily less expensive than the real thing.