21 Nov
2023
21 Nov
'23
11:14 p.m.
More information is here:
https://firstmicroprocessor.com/?doing_wp_cron=1700608229.86660599708557128…
I think that is the designers (Rod Holt?) website. Apparently he won a legal battle to
use the term "first microprocessor" for whatever that is worth.
Will
On 11/21/2023 2:56 PM CST Brent Hilpert via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 2023-Nov-21, at 1:03 AM, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote:
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign
them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 7:01 PM ben via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
A claim is made for the first microproc being the CADC processor of an early
flight-control system for the F-14, made by Garrett AiResearch ~ 1969. I haven't
looked into it in depth - or I don't know of detailed info being available - but
apparently it was a CPU made up of several LSI chips. In my opinion that disqualifies it,
but it's all into the mug's game of specifying 'first at what?' On 2023-11-20 5:36 p.m., Murray McCullough via
cctalk wrote:
So what are the other contenders and what do they bring to table
On Nov. 15, 1971 Intel commercially released the
4004 microprocessor which
some consider to be the first. Nonetheless, even if not in agreement, it
made possible the instrument which drives the classic-computing industry or
at the very least our hobby!
Happy computing.
Murray 🙂
https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/swiss-physicist-builds-complete-intel-400…
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