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Intel 4004 Turns 30
fm6 writes: "Just the thing to remind an aging geek of his mortality: this week marks the 30th anniversary of the Intel 4004, the very first microprocessor. Another historical page here, and a column bemoaning the absence of dancing in the streets here. Trivia -- why 4004? Because it was the fourth component in a 4-bit chipset." You might want to read the interview with Ted Hoff from a few months ago, it's pretty informative about the origins of the 4004.
Is it still in production anywhere and what's the current record for overclocking one of these babies?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Unless you can port linux to this, why do we care? This is slashdot, we have standards!
Trapped in Time... Surrounded by Evil... Low on Gas.
...pretty soon, it will start experiencing its midlife crisis.
Haha.
Maybe some day, when I get tired of making small electronic curcuits explode, I'll get one of these and build an SAP (simple as posssible) computer out of one, just for jollies, assuming I still have eyes left.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
4004 Not found.
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The Cap is nigh. Time to get a fresh new account.
"this week marks the 30th anniversary of the Intel 4004, the very first microprocessor. "
What?
I thought Microsoft made the first microprocessor after purchasing the idea from Al Gore.
But, well, if they say so on Slashdot, it MUST be true.
-Shaunak.
The 8008 was twice as powerful as the 4004.
If only naming conventions could make that much sense today . . .
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to make a bigger deal when this thing is four thousand four years old? Or perhaps, when it turns 44?
I've been waiting for the year 2015 to be the first poster with the story. I was really looking forward to all the extra karma gained with the mod ups.
Dang, foiled again.
Intel 4004 Turns 30
:P
from the middle-aged dept.
I'm 33 and that ain't middle-aged. I take offence!
/*drunk.. fix later*/
"My Dad had put me on a train to New York to expand my teenage horizons. I returned with 4004 and 8008 data sheets and some chip
:-)
samples."
It sounds like he sent you there "to become a man," but you came back a geek instead
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
If automobile speed had increased similarly over the same period, you could now drive from San Francisco to New York in about 13 seconds."
but if you were running Winblows it would have crashed in Utah...
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
But imagine a beowulf cl...
.13 micron technology, making them a tiny fraction of their original size ? Throw down a hundred of them on a board and have it run a massively parallelized app of some sort at 25 cents per node.
Hey, seriously, wouldn't it be groovalicious to have a bunch of 4004's produced using today's
Why the hell not ?
-Billco, Fnarg.com
So, in essence they were saying "640 byte should be enough for everyone" ?
(Can you imagina a B... ?)
Dave
Its Saturday November 13th, 2011 And on slashdot, an article saying Intel 4004 Turns 40!
Its Friday Noveber the 13th (unlucky), and guess what, an article saying Intel 4004 turns 100! and as celebration Intel Release their Octium 8 Processor that runs at 1PHZ (1,000,000,000,000,000 hz!)
Yet all the nostalgic geeks try to run linux on the 100,000 hz processor. And fail miserbly as global warming as melted antartica and penguins became extinct!