Marketing (was Re: Columbus analogy (Was: Corrections to trivia

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Mon Oct 12 14:29:33 1998

"Max Eskin" <maxeskin_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> TI's 1979 book Understanding Microprocessors defines it as:
> A digital integrated unit (or a set of IC's) that contains the
> digital functions necessary to be a CPU.

Naturally TI is going to downplay the "single-chip" requirement, since they
failed to produce a working single-chip CPU before Intel.

TI had a design, but it didn't prove to be manufacturable.

Even if not everyone here agrees that being on a single chip is a necessary
condition for something to be called a microprocessor, to the best of my
knowledge no one disagrees with the claim that Intel as the first to make
a single-chip CPU.

Eric
Received on Mon Oct 12 1998 - 14:29:33 BST