11 most influential microprocessors of all time

[Ken Gagne <kgagne@gamebits.net>]

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.)