National Scamp

[Jugglering]

What's a National Scamp please ? It sure sounds like a lot of fun and I would really love to have a bit more fun these days....

[dot.hawkes]

Norman Wisdom was one, so i think is johnny Vegas in a more modern context. Jimmy Clitheroe was almost a national scamp but he lacked the honesty. Ken Dodd could qualify but he would nevwer admit to the work.

[naz_nomad]

The SC/MP from National Semiconductor is an early microprocessor, which became available in early 1974. The name SC/MP (pronounced "Scamp") is an acronym for: "Simple Cost-effective Micro Processor".

It features a 16-bit address and an 8-bit data bus. The program counter will roll-over on 12-bits (4096), there are separate instructions to alter the program counter to set the upper 4-bits, which are subsequently output on the address bus along with status signals. This provides a memory map of 16 pages each of 4k bytes. Internally it provided five registers plus the program counter, but no stack pointer.

more here ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Semicond uctor_SC/MP

[dot.hawkes]

nooooooooooooooooo naz, whiffey was referring to the national scamps of humour lol

[Woofter]

 I've reported him (or her ) as well.

[naz_nomad]

It's possible Dot, I have been known to be wrong, on occasion ...






...well, lots of occasions then :-(

[Jugglering]

Thank you dot.hawkes - it was whiffey's "national scamp" I was referring to (I'd never heard the expression before).

naz_nomad - top reply as well, thank you, although I am slightly disappointed that your *SC/MP* did not provide an internal stack pointer, but I guess that's because it really was a *scemp* and not a *scamp* ;)