6 Oct
1998
6 Oct
'98
6:27 a.m.
Sam wrote:
Who's avoiding the issue? I think
"microcomputer" most aptly defines what
the F14 chip set is, taken as a whole. The 4004, the equivalent of the
F14 CADC's SLF, also needed a bunch of support chips to make it useful
(4001, 4002, 4003, etc. not to mention a bunch of TTL, which the CADC did
NOT need, requiring only the chips in its basic set)
What bunch of TTL? If you could get by with registers (of which there were
16), you only needed a 4004 and the ROM chip to make a useful system. If you
needed more ROM, RAM, or I/O, you just added the appropriate 400x chips.