20 Aug
2010
20 Aug
'10
7:56 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Interesting... I wonder if it was an industry-standard term at the time...
I am tryingf to remember what HP called the control logic board in an
9800 calculator. I can rememebr the part number (09810-66513), but I
don't have the boardswapper guid (why would I need it) that would give
the name. But the term 'microproceesor' seems to ring a bell...
-tony
But DEC had their own meaning for
'microprocessor' to mean a 'microcoded
control system'. I seem to remember that the control logic of a VT52 and
that of the DMC11, etc are called 'microprocessors' in the DEC manuals,
for all the are built from lots of MSI chips, and there's nothing that
the rest of the world would call a microprocessor (a chip such as a Z80,
6800, 8080, 6502, etc)
IBM used that definition as well. The "PALM" (Put All Logic in