Intel 8008 - Revision history

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‎External links: +The 8008 & The 8080

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‎External links: +Oral History of the Intel 8008 Microprocessor

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Ancestor of 8080

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origin of 8008

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 * [http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_History/Intel_8008/Intel_8008_1.oral_history.2006.102657982.pdf Oral History Panel on the Development and Promotion of the Intel 8008 Microprocessor]
 * [http://www.righto.com/2015/05/the-texas-instruments-tmx-1795-first.html The Texas Instruments TMX 1795: the (almost) first, forgotten microprocessor] - Ken Shirriff's article about the first microprocessors, covers the 8008 also
 * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG6goCIWCYY Craig Solomonson's 1972 Intel Microcomputer)]
 [[Category: Intel Microprocessors]]

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 * [http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_History/Intel_8008/Intel_8008_1.oral_history.2006.102657982.pdf Oral History Panel on the Development and Promotion of the Intel 8008 Microprocessor]
-* http://www.righto.com/2015/05/the-texas-instruments-tmx-1795-first.html The Texas Instruments TMX 1795: the (almost) first, forgotten microprocessor] - Ken Shirriff's article about the first microprocessors, covers the 8008 also
+* [http://www.righto.com/2015/05/the-texas-instruments-tmx-1795-first.html The Texas Instruments TMX 1795: the (almost) first, forgotten microprocessor] - Ken Shirriff's article about the first microprocessors, covers the 8008 also
 * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG6goCIWCYY Craig Solomonson's 1972 Intel Microcomputer)]
 [[Category: Intel Microprocessors]]

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 The 8008 was commissioned by the [[Datapoint|Computer Terminal Corporation]] for their ground-breaking [[Datapoint 2200]] [[program]]mable [[terminal]] product; the [[instruction set]] was designed by CTC, not Intel. Due in part to issues at Intel, the chip was delayed, and when it did finally appear, it did not reach the performance CTC had specified; so CTC wound up using a CPU of their own design, implemented in discrete [[transistor-transistor logic|TTL]] logic, in the 2200.
-The design of the 8008 actually started only slightly after the preliminary thinking about the [[Intel 4004|4004]] (the first microprocessor  actually sold) but was put on hold (partly because CTC, which was funding the development, ran into business difficulties), and re-started after the 4004 was finished. This is reflected in the original naming used for them, which was '1201' for the 8008 and '1202' for the 4004: '1': P-MOS, '2': Random logic, '01': Serial number ('02' for the 4004). Both processors were renamed for marketing reasons. [2][3]
+The design of the 8008 actually started only slightly after the preliminary thinking about the [[Intel 4004|4004]] (the first microprocessor actually sold) but was put on hold (partly because CTC, which was funding the development, ran into business difficulties), and re-started after the 4004 was finished. This is reflected in the original naming used for them, which was '1201' for the 8008 and '1202' for the 4004: '1': P-MOS, '2': Random logic, '01': Serial number ('02' for the 4004). Both processors were renamed for marketing reasons.
 The 8008 eventually evolved into the [[Intel 8080]], from which the entire [[Intel x86]] line later developed.
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-===References===
+==External links==
-* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG6goCIWCYY (Craig Solomonson's 1972 Intel Microcomputer)
+* [http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_History/Intel_8008/Intel_8008_1.oral_history.2006.102657982.pdf Oral History Panel on the Development and Promotion of the Intel 8008 Microprocessor]
-* http://www.righto.com/2015/05/the-texas-instruments-tmx-1795-first.html (Ken Shirriff's article about the first microprocessors)
+* http://www.righto.com/2015/05/the-texas-instruments-tmx-1795-first.html The Texas Instruments TMX 1795: the (almost) first, forgotten microprocessor] - Ken Shirriff's article about the first microprocessors, covers the 8008 also
-* http://www.intel4004.com/
+* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG6goCIWCYY Craig Solomonson's 1972 Intel Microcomputer)]
 [[Category: Intel Microprocessors]]

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	The design of the 8008 actually started only slightly after the preliminary thinking about the [[Intel 4004\|4004]] (the first microprocessor actually sold) but was put on hold (partly because CTC, which was funding the development, ran into business difficulties), and re-started after the 4004 was finished. This is reflected in the original naming used for them, which was '1201' for the 8008 and '1202' for the 4004: '1': P-MOS, '2': Random logic, '01': Serial number ('02' for the 4004). Both processors were renamed for marketing reasons. [2][3]		The design of the 8008 actually started only slightly after the preliminary thinking about the [[Intel 4004\|4004]] (the first microprocessor actually sold) but was put on hold (partly because CTC, which was funding the development, ran into business difficulties), and re-started after the 4004 was finished. This is reflected in the original naming used for them, which was '1201' for the 8008 and '1202' for the 4004: '1': P-MOS, '2': Random logic, '01': Serial number ('02' for the 4004). Both processors were renamed for marketing reasons. [2][3]
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		+	The 8008 eventually evolved into the [[Intel 8080]], from which the entire [[Intel x86]] line later developed.

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 The '''Intel 8008''' [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]] was the world's first [[microprocessor]]; it was an 8-[[bit]] unit. The first [[integrated circuit|chips]] were made in 1971 and announced in March or April 1972. It had a [[clock]] [[frequency]] of 0.5MHz, or 0.8MHz for the 8008-1 variant pictured to the right. The 0.8MHz variant was available as early as June 1972[1].
-The 8008 was commissioned by the [[Computer Terminal Corporation]] for their ground-breaking [[Datapoint 2200]] [[program]]mable terminal product; the [[instruction set]] was designed by CTC, not Intel. Due to issues at Intel, the chip was delayed, and when it did finally appear, it did not reach the performance CTC had specified; so CTC wound up using a CPU of their own design, implemented in discrete [[transistor-transistor logic|TTL]] logic, in the 2200.
+The 8008 was commissioned by the [[Computer Terminal Corporation]] for their ground-breaking [[Datapoint 2200]] [[program]]mable [[terminal]] product; the [[instruction set]] was designed by CTC, not Intel. Due in part to issues at Intel, the chip was delayed, and when it did finally appear, it did not reach the performance CTC had specified; so CTC wound up using a CPU of their own design, implemented in discrete [[transistor-transistor logic|TTL]] logic, in the 2200.
-The design of the 8008 actually started before the design of the [[Intel 4004|4004]] (the first microprocessor  actually sold) but was put on hold, and re-started after the 4004 was finished. This is reflected in the original naming used for them, which was '1201' for the 8008 and '1202' for the 4004: '1': P-MOS, '2': Random logic, '01': Serial number ('02' for the 4004). Both processors were renamed for marketing reasons. [2][3]
+The design of the 8008 actually started only slightly  after the preliminary thinking about the [[Intel 4004|4004]] (the first microprocessor  actually sold) but was put on hold (partly because CTC, which was funding the development, ran into business difficulties), and re-started after the 4004 was finished. This is reflected in the original naming used for them, which was '1201' for the 8008 and '1202' for the 4004: '1': P-MOS, '2': Random logic, '01': Serial number ('02' for the 4004). Both processors were renamed for marketing reasons. [2][3]
 ===References===

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 [[Image:8008-top.png|150px|thumb|right|i8008]]
-The Intel 8008 [[CPU]], the world's first 8-bit commercially sold [[microprocessor]]. The first [[integrated circuit|chips]] were made in 1971 and announced in March or April 1972. 0.5MHz [[clock]] [[frequency]], or for the 8008-1 variant pictured to the right, 0.8MHz. The 0.8MHz variant was available as early as June 1972[1]
+The '''Intel 8008''' [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]] was the world's first [[microprocessor]]; it was an 8-[[bit]] unit. The first [[integrated circuit|chips]] were made in 1971 and announced in March or April 1972. It had a [[clock]] [[frequency]] of 0.5MHz, or 0.8MHz for the 8008-1 variant pictured to the right. The 0.8MHz variant was available as early as June 1972[1].
-The design of the 8008 actually started before the design of the [[Intel 4004|4004]], but was put on hold and restarted after the 4004 was finished. This is reflected in the original naming used for the processors, which was 1201 for the 8008 and 1202 for the 4004. 1: P-MOS, 2: Random logic, 01: Serial number (02 for the 4004). Both processors were renamed for marketing reasons. [2][3]
+The 8008 was commissioned by the [[Computer Terminal Corporation]] for their ground-breaking [[Datapoint 2200]] [[program]]mable terminal product; the [[instruction set]] was designed by CTC, not Intel. Due to issues at Intel, the chip was delayed, and when it did finally appear, it did not reach the performance CTC had specified; so CTC wound up using a CPU of their own design, implemented in discrete [[transistor-transistor logic|TTL]] logic, in the 2200.
 ===References===

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