I've been wanting to implement such an architecture on an FPGA for a while now... may do so over this winter break.
"The line-up consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzul vanes so fitted to the ambaphascient lunar wain shaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented."
Ahhh, classic.
Though admittedly this isn't something I've done for a number of years, IIRC both the VGA and the original Sound Blaster had write-only registers which you would use to request some change in state, and some other registers that would reflect the actual current state of the device if/when the request was honoured.
Of course these are not write-only in the sense that nothing can read their contents, since they are provided as an interface to some coprocessor like a GPU or a sound chip. That coprocessor can of course read the incoming data. They are more like the hardware equivalent of mutator methods on top of private properties.
Minor typo, or anachronistic use of early 21st Century slang that suggests time traveller activity?
"SCROM" must mean Self-Clear Read-Only Memory?
> Dr. Morris Breakthrough, a consultant on leave from Uisge Beatha, Ltd., of Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
I lost it.
