[CCTALK] transistor counts again

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Wed May 15 18:58:12 2002

On Thu, 16 May 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
> > Yeah.
> > The 4004 was once rumored to have been named that because it had the
> > equivalent of 4004 transistors.
> I find that hard to believe. The 4004 was part of a chipset containing
> the 4001 (ROM), 4002 (RAM) and 4003 (I forget exactly what, some kind of
> I/O?). The 4001 and 4002 parts were used in lots of 4004 or 4040-based
> designs.

I never believed it. But is one of those pieces of bogus lore that keeps
resurfacing.

> > It's MUCH more impressive what was done with only 486!
> That's 80486, surely :-)

For intel. But what about the Cyrix 486SLC, AMD K6, etc? :-)
Received on Wed May 15 2002 - 18:58:12 BST