21 Aug
2010
21 Aug
'10
8:41 p.m.
Never fear, the DEC marketing crowd "fixed"
that one too, they were
"Supermicrosystems", as per the handbook (1986) which covered the MicroVAX
I,II, Micro PDP11/23,73,83.
OK :-)
In the early days about 1974 maybe a bit before, it
usually implied
microcoded processor or state machine. VT52 never had a CPU
That makes sense..
FWWI, I did look in the HP9830 'service' manual. The CPU control board --
the board containing the microcode ROMs, serquencer, etc is refered to as
the 'micro-processosr' by HP. Perhaps the hyphen makes a difference :-)
of any form it was all state machine in microcode and
random logic.
Just as the defintions of mainframe, minicomputer, and microcomputer are
somewhat blurred, I find it very hard to put a dividing line betwee
'state machine' and 'processor' :-)
-tony