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

[Carl Friedberg]

Michael,

I know that Kathy Morse, the main MicroVMS engineer, was testing the
microcode for the MicroVAX chip on a 730. She actually re-programmed
the 730 micro-code. She did it this way because she could not get any
"real" MicroVAX hardware. This had to be in the 1981-1983 time frame,
so it is quite likely the BELLMAC-32A came earlier.

Carl Friedberg

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:51 PM, 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"
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