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

Bob Koehler koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org
Fri Apr 24 09:03:38 EDT 2009


In article <Nj6Il.30775$ZP4.7570 at nlpi067.nbdc.sbc.com>, Michael Austin <maustin at firstdbasource.com> writes:
> 
> 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"

  VAX wasn't a single chip processor until MicroVAX II, a few years
  later.




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