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| Intel
4004 - The worlds first microprocessor,
introduced in 1970 with the speed of 108KHz
and contained 1,300 transistors. |
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| Intel 4040 - Introduced
in 1972 with the speed of 0.75MHz. P-MOS
technology. |
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| Intel 8008 - Introduced
1972 with a speed of 0.5MHz. P-MOS 6um.technology
with 3,100 transistors |
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| Intel 8080 - Introduced
in 1974 with a speed of 2 MHz and contained
6000 transistors. Was used in the world's
first PC, the Altair. |
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| Motorola - MC6800 Introduced
August 1974 with a speed of 1 and 2 MHz
it contained 6,800 transistors. |
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| Motorola - MC6809 CPU Optimized
for high level languages. |
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8085 Introduced 1976
and contained 6,200 transistors. |
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1976 Zilog - Z80 Introduced
1976 with a speed of 2.5 to 10MHz. (In
1987 Zilog introduced the Z280, a 16bit
version of the Z80) |
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| Intel 8086 - (Code Name:
P1) First introduced in 1976. with available
clock speeds of 5MHz, 8MHz, and 10MHz,
and contains 29,000 transistors |
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| Intel 8087 - Floating-point
math compressor compliant with the 8086
/ 8080 microprocessor family. |
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Synertek 6502 - Introduced
in 1977 The Apple II was launced using
this CPU from Motorola |
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Motorola MC68000 - Introduced
Sept. 1979, used in the Atari ST, Commodore
Amiga, Apple Lisa, and later enhanced
versions used in the Apple Macintosh.
It contained 68,000 transistors. |
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Intel 8088 - Called the
"First Generation" Released
in 1978 to 1981, this was the first
processor used in the original IBM XT
PC |
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Intel 80186 - Released
in 1980, This was a popular chip. Many
versions have been developed, but none
used in a ordinary PC |
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Intel 80286 - Code named
"P2" Called the "Second
generation", first introduced in
1982, and containing 134,000 transistors. |
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Motorola 68010 - Introduced
in 1984, and used in the Apple Macintosh |
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Motorola 68020 - Introduced
in 1984, and used in the Apple Macintosh |
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Sun Super SPARC - Released
in 1987 it is short for Scaleable Processor
ARChiture, utilising RISC (Reduced Instruction
Set Code) to speed up processing in
specialised computing |
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Intel 80386SX - Introduced
in 1987 called the "Third Generation"
The SX lacked a math coprocessor |
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