Corrections to trivia

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Tue Oct 6 06:52:58 1998

The Big Bang was named Babbage. Intel supplied the ammunition for a
< revolution: cheap computers. The high level of integration was what

No Intel never made a cheap computer. They made CPUs, Memory and support
chips. The MCS. MDS, intellect even the SDKs were anything but cheap.

< enabled them to make it cheap, and they commercialized it. The level o
< integration is the salient feature of the chip, but not the main featur
< of the important event.

It's everything as the 8008 hit the level of integration needed to produce
a viable general purpose commercial cpu.

For example why is it that prople are hunting for MARK-8 and Kenbec's
when the most likely find (greatest quantity) for 8008 machines is a
MCS-8 from intel?!?!

This is not unlike the PDP-8. the PDP-8 really wasn't the first small
computer. It was the first to be manufactured in large quantities at
low cost and that it was a member of a family that spanned many years
(PDP-5, 8, 8I, 8E, 8A DECmate).

Allison
Received on Tue Oct 06 1998 - 06:52:58 BST