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2023-08-12 16:27:44

Ken Shirriff on Nostr: The ancestor of the 8086 processor is the Datapoint 2200, a desktop minicomputer used ...

The ancestor of the 8086 processor is the Datapoint 2200, a desktop minicomputer used as an intelligent terminal. Made before the microprocessor, the Datapoint built a processor from a board of chips. The Intel 8008 cloned the Datapoint, first step to the x86 architecture. 🧵

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