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From: aal@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Anselmo A. Lastra)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RCA 1802 (was: PC history)
Keywords: history, pc, RCA, 1802
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Date: 3 Aug 88 19:56:44 GMT
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There was a two chip COSMAC. The early development systems from RCA
used the two chips. The move to one chip was driven by the fact that
the 1802 was targeted to controller applications. They expected a large
part of their market to be automotive control.

Another CMOS micro of that era was from Intersil (the 6100?). It
used the PDP-8 architecture.