10 Feb
1999
10 Feb
'99
3:27 a.m.
On 10 Feb 1999, Eric Smith wrote:
Sam wrote:
I'm getting this opinion straight from Ted Hoff himself. I don't know
where my notes are on this and I can't remember the details, but I think
there are some significant differences between the 4040 and 4004. The
8008 was supposed to have been based on the 4004 architecture, extending
it with more instructions and such. The 4040 was, I think, a whole
different design by a different team inside Intel.
I'll have to find my notes I guess.
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The 4040 was actually very different from the
4004. The 8008 is closer in
architecture to the 4004 than the 4040. The 4040 was actually a very
different design from the 4004.
Not really. The 4040 was just an improved 4004 with more registers, a
few more instructions, and a few more select lines (so that it could
address more memory).