15 Dec
2008
15 Dec
'08
9:37 p.m.
Further, DRAMs have always had better density (one
transistor and one
capacitor per bit, versus, what, four transistors or so?) but I really
don't think it's fair to suggest that microcomputers wouldn't have
existed without them.
I wrote DRAM, but actually meant semiconductor RAM, so also SRAM.
To put it in anther way : there was never a core based homecomputer.
The i4004 is a controller, at least to me, because it is dependent on a specific set of
supporting ciruits (4001,40002 and 4003).
The 8008 is much more general purpose.
Jos