Absolutely agree that old "microcontrollers" are relevant. I'm sure a bunch of us could list off at least a dozen CPUs that were used in the capacity that microcontrollers are now, not to mention even vintage devices we'd definitely recognize as microcontrollers today (Mostek's single-chip F8 with piggyback ROM, or the already mentioned 8051 and 8048). Further, there are some interesting microcontrollers available now that are in fact vintage (or almost-vintage) CPU cores at their hearts. In particular I'm thinking of the Microchip PIC32 line, which is a MIPS32 core. Thanks, Jonathan On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 12:25 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 06/29/2017 12:12 PM, Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic wrote: ...
I would suggest that early "microcontrollers" are on topic here.
<aol> Me too. </aol>
The microcontroller is a special case of the microprocessor. They're computers too.
-Dave
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA