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Subject: Re: Intel 4004 turns 50
On Tue, 16 Nov 2021, ED SHARPE wrote:
> The two contenders on tside leading g to the gold caphis question are
> white and Gold 4004. And. The white an
On Tue, 16 Nov 2021, ED SHARPE wrote:
The two contenders on tside leading g to the gold caphis question are
white and Gold 4004. And. The white and gold with leads showing through
in the white material i
And now in English, please!
Christian
The Intel 4004 was Harvard Architecture, as were the four bit microprocessors
that came later. (TI's TMS-1000, National Semi's COPS, Rockwell's PPS4) Fine
for a fixed program calculator or microcontroller, but the von Neumann 8 bit
microprocessor IC's opened up vastly more advances in low
The two contenders on tside leading g to the gold caphis question are white and
Gold 4004. And. The white and gold with leads showing through in the white
material i
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 3:11 PM, ED SHARPE via cctalk
wrote: And agin people
And agin people ask. (Us included!)... which processor is the true first...
the all white and gold... or... the white and gold with leads showing thru...
Intel pictures the leads show labeing through in publicity stuff it does
look better in a photo... some Collectors say the white
The WSJ had an article on it, but oddly, they left out the 8080/8085 from the
timeline discussion.
On 11/16/21, 12:30 PM, "cctalk on behalf of Zane Healy via cctalk"
wrote:
It looks like the Intel 4004 turned 50 yesterday.
Zane
The Wall St. Journal had a good essay about that, by Andy Kessler. This link
should get you there:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-chip-that-changed-the-world-microprocessor-computing-transistor-breakthrough-intel-11636903999?st=nm37ik74mq9vp51=desktopwebshare_permalink
It looks like the Intel 4004 turned 50 yesterday.
Zane
