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Intel introduced the first processor in the x86 series on this day in 1978

Probably the most important processor in PC history was introduced on this day 48 years ago. June 8, 1978, marked the birth of the x86 architecture with the arrival of the 16-bit Intel 8086 CPU. This ...
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The Pride and Struggles of Domestic Processors: Looking Back at the History of NEC's "V Series"

After reading the ITmedia series article NEC's "V Series" Disappears from the Market Despite Connecting Fates in Embedded Systems: Microprocessor Reminiscences (17) (Page 1/3), I wanted to organize ...
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Paul Heckbert

As of 2014, I am a software consultant for Duke University on the AWARE Gigapixel Camera, living and working in Pittsburgh. Prior to that I worked for GigaPan. In the naughts I worked for Google and ...
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74 logic

It implements a fairly conventional Von Neumann architecture using TTL with a couple of tricks that use modern chips but could have been done in the same way in decades past. Instruction microcode is ...