At 10:18 AM 8/30/2016, Paul Koning wrote:
Interesting. I thought it started with the 4004, which
was created as the engine of a desktop calculator.
The 4004 was the CPU of a 4 chip chipset developed, IIRC, in 1969 for Nippon Calculating
Machine. Intel later bought the rights to the 4004 from Nippon and in 1971 began marketing
the 4004 chipset as the first programmable microprocessor chipset.
The OP, on the other hand, was speaking only of the 8008, which was developed by Intel for
the Datapoint 2200 terminal, but was not used in the production of that terminal. Intel
sought other users and the first marketed applications for the 8008 were in calculators.
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