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To: Dave B who wrote (31896)	10/9/1999 11:37:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 93625

Which microprocessor were you designing in 1968? SHHHhhh - It's proprietary and they almost are ready to ship. TP

To: Dave B who wrote (31896)	10/10/1999 12:07:00 AM
From: grok	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

RE: <Which microprocessor were you designing in 1968? Thanks, Dave> It was called the BR1018 Computer. It was one of the first 3 Metal-Oxide-semiconductor (the fore runner to CMOS) computers being designed around that time. I supposed that it wasn't really a microprocessor since the transistor density was so low that it required 60 chips to make an 18 bit CPU (yes, 18 bits). The first microprocessor is generally considered to be the Intel 4004 which was introduced in 1971. At that time I was designing a 4-bit micro on a single chip called the PPS-4. It was better, in my opinion, than the 4004 but it was several months behind it. From that point on it was 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit. But I've hung up my slide rule so there would be 128 bits. (Well, actually the last two have had 128-bit vector floating point.)