[sdiy] IN your mind, what is ....

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "TIm Daugard" <daugard at sprintmail.com>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] IN your mind, what is ....
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:00:43 -0600
Message-ID: <005601c3e752$99b02be0$4258fea9 at desktop2>

> > (If someone invents "Sliders"-like wormhole traveling to parallel
> > universes, I'd like to see the world of today without the dominance of
> > Intel and Microsoft and what machines they run :)
> >
> > Now if you had named the i4004 and (shortly after) TMS1000 which started
> > all this microprocessor fuzz...
> 
> Noooooo the 4004 is still Intel.

He did write i4004, which is the old Intel way of writing things, before
getting marketing guys in there...

> 1802 !!  6809 !!  Why can't Motorola ever get it right? They sold off their
> semi's.

Hang on a minute... the 1802 was a RCA device! CDP1802 or something similar if
I recall correctly. Cool technology like silicon-on-saphire (SOS) suitable
when doing deep-space projects like we all are doing for our back-yard
launches!

Cheers,
Magnus