Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!unisoft!gethen!farren From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Microprocessors Message-ID: <430@gethen.UUCP> Date: 11 Dec 87 10:02:11 GMT References: <2175@tekig5.TEK.COM> <1026@hp-sdd.HP.COM> <2530@calmasd.GE.COM> <1818@epiwrl.EPI.COM> <1921@chinet.UUCP> <2769@drivax.UUCP> <240@esquire.UUCP> <2804@drivax.UUCP> Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) Followup-To: comp.sys.intel Organization: Sci-Fido - Unix in Oakland Lines: 27 Keywords: Intel, Motorola In article <2804@drivax.UUCP> socha@drivax.UUCP (Henri J. Socha (7-x6628)) writes: > >Did you know that the Intel 80386 architecture based on the 286, 186, 8086, >8080 was originally based on the Intel 8008. >This machine was architected basically over a weekend in Maryland for a >company in San Antonio Texas! And, put in silicon by Intel because the company >was their #1 RAM (shift register that is!) purchaser at the time. >It was 1 year late and then not used by that company. They had an MSI version >working. It was called the Datapoint 2200. Introduced in '71 I think. Well, you got the name of the company Intel designed their first micro- processor for right, anyway. It wasn't the 8008, though. That was Intel's own design, done after they saw some of the potential inherent in a general-purpose controller design. The design for Datapoint, which piqued Intel's interest, was the 4004, an entirely different kettle of fish than the 8008. And saying that the 8080, and, through it, the 80386, was 'the same' as the 8008 is rather like saying that a Vax is 'the same' as the original PDP-11. Obviously a relative, but hardly equivalent. Followups have been redirected to comp.sys.intel, by the way - this is a little beyond general Macintosh interests, I think... -- Michael J. Farren | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just {ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}! | dogmatize it! Reflect on it and re-evaluate unisoft!gethen!farren | it. You may want to change your mind someday." gethen!farren@lll-winken.arpa | Tom Reingold, from alt.flame