15 May
2002
15 May
'02
7:58 p.m.
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
I never believed it. But is one of those pieces of bogus lore that keeps
resurfacing.
For intel. But what about the Cyrix 486SLC, AMD K6, etc? :-)
Yeah.
The 4004 was once rumored to have been named that because it had the
equivalent of 4004 transistors.
I find that hard to believe. The 4004 was part of
a chipset containing
the 4001 (ROM), 4002 (RAM) and 4003 (I forget exactly what, some kind of
I/O?). The 4001 and 4002 parts were used in lots of 4004 or 4040-based
designs. It's MUCH
more impressive what was done with only 486!
That's 80486, surely :-)