I'd heard, four bits in four packages.
Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Sunday, May 06, 2001 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: How many transistors in the 6502 processor?
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Mike Ford wrote:
> My guess is that 68000 as a name had a lot to do with adding a zero to
6800.
I have been told several times that the 4004 was named after being the
equivalent of 4004 transistors. I don't believe that. But what WAS the
origin of the name?