Comment on The MP944 was the ‘real’ world’s first microprocessor, but it was top secret for nearly 30 years — F-14 Tomcat's chip lived in the shadow of the Intel 4004, but was eight times faster

asmoranomar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I wonder if it classifies as a general purpose microprocessor. It’s common to see very specialized chips run faster than a typical CPU, but you’re not going to run a consumer OS on it (if an OS at all). Even then, you’d sometimes need dedicated math coprocessors even if you had a CPU back then. It would be fascinating if it was true, cause that would likely mean it’s also the world’s first chip with an integrated math co-processor (IIRC)

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