At 02:06 PM 3/16/97 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 97-03-16 14:02:04 EST, you write:
>
><< This CPU was thought to be very powerfull for its time. Was it 16bit,
> while most of the others were 8bit? >>
>
>Yes, the TI was the FIRST 16-Bit Computer ever manufactured. TI invented the
>integrated circuit, the microprocessor, and the microcomputer, altogether.
> Being first was their tradition. Who knows if it still is?
Ummm... beg to differ a bit here... While I believe that TI did indeed
invent the integrated circuit, it was Intel that invented the
microprocessor (the 4004), and the microcomputer first arose from various
construction articles in electronics hobbiest related magazines at the time
where the when the microprocessors were still relegated to controller tasks
(calculators, traffic light controllers, etc.)
-jim
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Received on Wed Mar 19 1997 - 21:56:02 GMT