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40 years of microprocessor development
theinquirer.net ^
| Tue Nov 15 2011, 08:00
| By Daniel Robinson
Posted on 11/15/2011 7:04:23 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Timeline As Intel celebrates the 40th birthday of the 4004 chip, The INQUIRER looks at the key landmarks
ON THE OCCASION of the 40th anniversary of Intel's 4004 chip, The INQUIRER believes we have mapped the most significant PC microprocessor developments that have shaped our information technology landscape over the last four decades. The timeline we've come up with is below. µ Link to PDF File below:
(Excerpt) Read more at theinquirer.net ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: hitech
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To: blam
I am sitting here trying to compare micron''s with nanometers....
AMD's latest is done at 32 nanometers....
And Intel is set to pump out ivy Bridge next year at 22 nanometers.
To: tubebender
Keep my car running?
Who Knew?
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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11/15/2011 9:11:33 PM PST
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RedMDer
(Forward With Confidence!)
To: bunkerhill7
When the 80486 first came out we were installing it in our clones in Fremont, CA and they came back full of bugs from our customers- It was a big loser at first. Intel used the clone mom and pop operations as beta testers for the 80486.The dealer I worked for got the very first Acer 80486 computer in Kansas City. We were amazed at the blazing speed. To really test it out, we loaded up cshow (a graphic slide show program) and a bunch of porn photos, and set the autoexec.bat to start up the slideshow automatically... Then we went to lunch. When we got back the computer was gone. A salesman had boxed it up and taken it our to a major Fortune 500 client to demo it... He hooked it up in their conference room, turned it on, and went on his way to visit some people there and invite them to the demo. We heard that when he got back to the conference room, it was packed with "spectators" and he had trouble getting in...
Mark
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11/15/2011 9:17:43 PM PST
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
One micron equals one thousand nanometers.
One micron is exactly one one-millionth of a meter (0.000001 meter).
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11/15/2011 10:08:36 PM PST
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blam
To: SunkenCiv
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11/16/2011 12:10:36 AM PST
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Bobalu
(More rubble, less trouble)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Your post would be much better if we could see the pictures.
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11/16/2011 8:08:33 AM PST
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China Clipper
( Animals? Sure I like animals. See? There they are next to the potatoes!)
To: China Clipper
There were too many to include....and I worry about them being om the exclude list and then the whole thread gets yanked.
Are you reluctant to follow the link?
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
One of the photos:
Jack Kilby examines a wafer filled with chips.
Photo: Texas Instruments
To: blam
The good old days for some of us.
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11/16/2011 12:06:00 PM PST
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Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned.)
To: Bobalu
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11/16/2011 7:15:11 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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