Corrections to trivia

From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker_at_mail.interlog.com>
Date: Mon Oct 5 19:21:35 1998

On 5 Oct 98 at 23:43, Tony Duell wrote:

>
> Ooops.. .Finger trouble. I didn't mean to send an unedited message back
> to the list...
>
> > > > I believe the first microcomputer to run Unix was the DEC PDP11/03 and
> > > > 11/23 at At&T's Bell Labs (see the papers on mini-unix).
> > >
> > > Microprocessor-based computer? Read the question again.
>
> By some definitions, the LSI11/03 and 11/23 are microprocessors (as is
> the 11/73 which came later). The definition I use (and we've discussed
> this before...) is 'A microprocessor is a processor on a single chip, or
> a chipset which is only used to make that processor'. And that includes
> the 11/03 and 11/23
>
> If you won't allow these as microprocessors then you certainly have to
> exclude the F14 processor as well...
> >
> -tony
>
 How about a LSI IC on a single silicon wafer chip for data manipulation which
includes I/O funtions. Not to be confused with an MPU ( micro-processing unit}
which may or may not be on a single chip.

ciao larry
 
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