On 2/9/20 11:45 AM, 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...?
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).
Thoughts? I'm sure I'm forgetting plenty of important CPUs.
8088/8086 fall under the same family code wise (8 vs 16 bit) I would think the 8085 would be in there are I think most CP/M machines are 8085 and Z80 (there was CP/M for 6802, 68K and 8088/86 also). The original ARM 1 (?) would be interesting but I think they're hard to come by. On the micontroller side things get intereesting as there are lots of processors. Motorola 68xx (not those listed above), Intel 804x/805x, Z8, GI PICs (later Microchip). I don't think we see the AVR until the 90's. I'm more than certain I've missed a few. I never paid much attention to the 1 bit processors. I know Japan has a family of processor that I've never heard of yet were the most popular microcontroller ever produced. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies