> In fact if it weren't for a terminal company, Intel wouldn't have designed > the 8008 microprocessor, the grandfather of the x86!
> Interesting. I thought it started with the 4004, which was created as the > engine of a desktop calculator. It did.. But being a cross between tongue-in-cheek and pedantic, the lineage could be considered to be : 4004/4040 -> 8008 -> 8080 -> 8086. Taking it like that, the 8008 is the grandfather of the 8086, the 4004 is the great-grandfather. -tony
