16 Nov
2021
16 Nov
'21
2:35 p.m.
As for microprocessors, there are MANY MANY micros that preceded the PC.
You can find a list here:
?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor_chronology
The 8088 is a late comer to the microprocessor world.
On 11/16/2021 4:08 PM, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
Did the 4004 chip start our interest in
microcomputing? It is 50 today.
Classic computing begins earlier but for the masses, if they could be
called that in the early seventies, this was it. I hesitate in calling it
the first microprocessor as pc'ers will object.
Happy computing all.
Murray ?