Re: 11 most influential microprocessors of all time

[magnusfalkirk <dean.phares@gmail.com>]

On Sep 2, 12:49 pm, Ken Gagne <kga...@gamebits.net> wrote:
> I recently found this article on an esoteric topic:
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/171171/
>
> The Apple II's 6502 is on page 8 as the fifth most important
> microprocessor -- but it's a bit hard to order the importance of such
> things.  As Tony D. pointed out to me, many processors are built upon
> or influenced by others -- so if an underpowered processor led
> directly to a revolutionary one, who is to say which is more
> "influential"?  Perhaps the above list would've been better presented
> as a timeline than a ranking.
>
> What do you think of the hardware PC World chose and how they
> presented it?  Would you have chosen differently?
>
> Ken
> (full disclosure: I'm an employee of a sister publication of PC World.
> There is no incentive for me to promote their content, though... I
> just think this is an interesting topic.)

Ken,

I don't know if I'd have chosen any different list of hardware from
what PC World chose. I do think that it would have been better to just
do it as a timeline of microprocessor development instead of trying to
list them by influence on the industry.

Dean