[Info-vax] Wasn't VAX first??

[Bob Eager]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:51:19 UTC, Michael Austin 
<maustin at firstdbasource.com> wrote:

> From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor
> "The world's first single-chip fully-32-bit microprocessor, with 32-bit 
> data paths, 32-bit buses, and 32-bit addresses, was the AT&T Bell Labs 
> BELLMAC-32A, with first samples in 1980, and general production in 1982 
> (See this bibliographic reference and this general reference"

At that point, surely the VAX wasn't technically a microprocessor (i.e. 
most of it on one chip)? Not sure, but I think only the 780, 750, 730 
and perhaps one or two more were around. Even the LSI-11 (only 16 bits) 
was pretty new.
-- 
Bob Eager