On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 11:45:37AM -0500, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Hi Everyone,
VCF is working on a historical exhibit of CPUs (not really support chips at this point). Literally just the CPUs.
What should we have at the bare minimum? 4004, 8008, 8088, 8086, 6502, Z80, 6800, 6809...?
Without your criteria hard to say. A lot were intended for embedded applications. Some more 8 bits 1802, F8, TMS 1000, 8048/8051, PIC, 8x300. greater than 8 bit: 68000 family, TMS 9900, 6100 (PDP-8 on a chip) Interested in bit slice such as AM2901? More to choose from https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2006/CompArch/documents/all/trends/cpu_his...
What should we have if we have more space? 80x86, 680x0, Sparc, MIPS, Power, Alpha, ARM, Itanium...?
Modern CPUs (to some degree) aren't out of the question, either, as we're hoping to show the progression of Moore's Law from the 4004 (2,300 transistors) to present day maybe, for example, a AMD Ryzen 9 3900X (at 9,890,000,000 transistors).
AVR since popular with hobbiest and continuation of old microcontroller.
Thoughts? I'm sure I'm forgetting plenty of important CPUs.