Actually, there's tons of stuff about sequential circuits in KR&W, of
> which I have multiple copies, including Keister's personal copy signed
> by the authors. I helped empty his house when he moved to Cape Cod
> and he gave it to me -- and the Ritchie was my father.
> The book was published in 1951, and the thing it doesn't have much
> about is transistor (let alone integrated) circuits. About as much
> space (a few pages) is on cold-cathode tubes.
I agree there is lots about sequential circuits -- my argument is that the approach used in KR&W is more of a cookbook approach -- circuits that have been worked out to solve specific problems -- and that it was Huffman who worked out the way to analyze sequential circuits using Boolean algebra.
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