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From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Mon Oct 12 16:24:51 1998

On 12 Oct 1998, Eric Smith wrote:

> 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.

I do. Ray Holt did it with AMI working for Garrett AiResearch in 1970.

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