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Re: 11 most influential microprocessors of all time



magnusfalkirk wrote:
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.

I agree that the PC World list is quite reasonable.

Although a timeline presentation of microprocessors would have been
interesting (and has been done), it would not show the fact that some
microprocessors have affected the world much more than others.

-michael

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