At 10:59 PM 2/7/98 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
>On February 7, Michael Sokolov wrote:
>> BTW, what's 4004?
>
>  The 4004 was (I believe) the first microprocessor to come out of
>Intel.  It was 4-bits wide and was designed for desktop calculator

Wasn't it one of the very very first microprocessors? I mean, on a chip and
not just an "accumulator" or whatever they were called in the '40s?
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