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From: rmf@bpdsun1.uucp (Rob Finley)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: "Name These Chips"
Message-ID: <1990Oct6.215013.21449@bpdsun1.uucp>
Date: 6 Oct 90 21:50:13 GMT
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In article <1990Oct5.152413.24200@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <4083@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
>>> Intel D3002        - 4 bit Microprocessor Slice (ALU) 
>>
>>	That's probably what it is.
>
>Amazing, a chance to catch Larry out on something! :-)  It's a *two*-bit
>microprocessor slice.  Intel decided that having more buses on a small
>package was worth doubling the number of chips for a given system.  The
>market generally disagreed and those chips weren't too successful.

My favorite was the Motorola 1-bit cpu chip.  Don't remember too many 
details except an 8085 was cheaper.  They did have an app note where
it controled traffic signals.  Hmm.  Wonder how it did that... B-).
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