1995
DOI: 10.1109/5.476077
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The history of the microcomputer-invention and evolution

Abstract: Because of the ever growing density of large scale integrated (LSI) circuits a "computer on a chip" was inevitable. But in 1970 we could only get about 2000 transistors on a chip, and a conventional CPU would need about 10 times that number. We developed two "microcomputers" 10 years ahead of "schedule," by scaling down the requirements and using a few other "tricks" described in this paper.

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“…A popular question [292] then was: can we also build a single CPU with (only) 150, 80, or 25 chips? The MSI had about 100 transistors each per chip.…”
Section: Brief History Of General-purpose Microprocessorsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A popular question [292] then was: can we also build a single CPU with (only) 150, 80, or 25 chips? The MSI had about 100 transistors each per chip.…”
Section: Brief History Of General-purpose Microprocessorsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These were large mainframe computers used to perform a very small number of repetitive tasks, such as company payslips or other administrative tasks (Kaufmann-Buhler 2021). After that came the era of microcomputing , where computers became accessible to everyone and offered the user a graphical interface to manage different tasks (Mazor 1995;Power 2000). This era made IT user-friendly and did not require a group of trained staff (Barnes 2010).…”
Section: Figure 1 Development Of Digitalizationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…I have fond memories of standing in a classroom, most of the walls of which were taken up by the computer, with twelve rather bemused student teachers, telling them that 'One day, when you have one of these in your classroom, you won't be doing what we've just been doing, but it will be exciting and powerful, and it will change the way your students learn and the way you teach'. The students were clearly very skeptical, but the Intel 4004 'computer on a chip' had arrived on the market in November 1971 (Mazor, 1995) and was clearly pointing the way to the PC, if not in form, at least in promise. The potential for getting away from just writing a program towards information processing and communication were already obvious.…”
Section: Early Daysmentioning
confidence: 99%