On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 11:45 AM Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
VCF is working on a historical exhibit of CPUs (not really support chips at this point). Literally just the CPUs.
Cool.
What should we have at the bare minimum? 4004, 8008, 8088, 8086, 6502, Z80, 6800, 6809...?
1802.
What should we have if we have more space? 80x86, 680x0, Sparc, MIPS, Power, Alpha, ARM, Itanium...?
Depends on your focus, but the 8-bitters above are all 1970s and so is the MC68000. There's also the SC/MP a version of which appeared as the INS8073, a "BASIC on a chip" product (CPU, BASIC in ROM and a few I/O bits for a console, just add RAM) and found in the RB5X robot (among other places).
Thoughts? I'm sure I'm forgetting plenty of important CPUs.
Depends on "important for what". I see plenty of good suggestions in the rest of the thread. -ethan