23 Sep
1998
23 Sep
'98
6:42 a.m.
On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Richard A. Cini, Jr. wrote:
On page B6, in an article titled "Yet Another
'Father' Of the
Microprocessor Wants Recognition", there is discussion of Ray Holt, an
ex-Navy engineer who claims to have created the microprocessor in 1969, two
years before Hoff, Faggin, and Mazor created the integrated processor.
I finally read the article today. It's interesting that Hoff et al define
a microprocessor just as I do:
"But we were the first to put a computer's central processing unit on a
single chip."
The article goes on to say that Mr. Holt argues that a microprocessor
doesn't have to be on one chip, but I didn't see any attempt to offer an
alternative definition of microprocessor.
-- Doug