INTRODUCTION TO MICROPEOCESSOR
MICROPROCESSOR BASICS
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Question
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Why Microcomputer was originally called ‘Micro’?
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The size of the computer is in micrometer scale.
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The fabrication (transistor size) of each transistor in the first computer processor is on micrometer scale.
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The clock period is approximately microseconds.
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The physical size of the whole computer is tiny.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Not long after Intel introduced its 8080 chip, a small firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, named MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) announced a computer kit called the Altair, which met the social as well as technical requirements for a small personal computer.
Detailed explanation-2: -Abstract: Intel’s founder, Robert Noyce, chartered Ted Hoff’s Applications Research Department in 1969 to find new applications for silicon technology-the microcomputer was the result. Hoff thought it would be neat to use MOS LSI technology to produce a computer.
Detailed explanation-3: -Intel introduced the first commercial microprocessor, the 4-bit Intel 4004, in 1971.
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