12 Oct
1998
12 Oct
'98
7:29 a.m.
"Max Eskin" <maxeskin(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
TI's 1979 book Understanding Microprocessors
defines it as:
A digital integrated unit (or a set of IC's) that contains the
digital functions necessary to be a CPU.
Naturally TI is going to downplay the "single-chip" requirement, since they
failed to produce a working single-chip CPU before Intel.
TI had a design, but it didn't prove to be manufacturable.
Even if not everyone here agrees that being on a single chip is a necessary
condition for something to be called a microprocessor, to the best of my
knowledge no one disagrees with the claim that Intel as the first to make
a single-chip CPU.
Eric