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I never came across a 4004 but in 1973 my classmate at Uni decided to use an 8008 for his final year project basically he invented the math co-processor (write two 8-bit binary numbers to two successive memory locations and read a 16-bit answer for their multiplication ... hardware multiply)
I saw this microprocessor thing and confidently declared "they will never catch on !" How wrong can one be !?
P.S. after graduating my first job had me sent on an Intel training course for the 8048, then a Motorola 6800 course!
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Heh.. I might do a "Time until Singularity" timer with a countdown in years, months, days, hours, etc.
Should go nicely next to my "Time until First Contact", "Time until Apophis hit/miss" and "Time until warp breakthrough"... (the latter being rumoured to be April 23, 2063 according to Google)
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Odds are you're reading this on something with an Intel processor in it. If not two or four.
But Dr. Spark, wait and see what we do to the things in the next 40 years! Even the word "microprocessor" is outdated now, first we had microcontrollers, then Systems-On-A-Chip, like the PXA270 processors I spend my days programming now.
The PXA270 was an Intel system-on-a-chip based on a licensed ARM core, until they sold it to Marvell. We buy it in on a half-business-card sized board including 64MB of RAM, which consumes only a few watts and is more powerful than the Sun Workstations I did my first serious coding on (in Fortran!)
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Dr. Spark wrote ...
OK back to the topic of this tread. Microcontrollers have change the world, am glad I was part of this, as made the future very exciting and each day i go to work, get to work on the bleeding edge of Si; however, remember before Solid State days and how basic electronics really was. You do have to give the old tube engineers a hand however, as they were extremely creative with the technology at the time.
Youre absolutley right on this point, im 29 and over the last 11 years ive seen things that have had me saying " how the hell did they do that!?" and the new Arm 9 on my drone, that was not even thinkable in the late 90's. even with moore's law.
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Happy Birthday Intel!
Even the word "microprocessor" is outdated now, first we had microcontrollers, then Systems-On-A-Chip, like the PXA270 processors I spend my days programming now.