21 May
2013
21 May
'13
12:01 p.m.
On 05/20/2013 05:18 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
DEC (certainly) and HP (I think) have been known to refer to a microcoded
control system (like half a DMC11) as a 'microprocessor'.
And of course HP refered ot the HP9830 as a 'calculator', for all it has
a full QWERTY keyboard and programs in BASIC.
-tony
I just noticed that the cover of the January 1975
Popular Electronics
calls the Altair 8800 a "Minicomputer"!
How authoritative would we consider THEM for the definition?
In 1972, AES dubbed their cage-o-cards (the AES-80), a "microprocessor".