<story><title>Die photos and analysis of the revolutionary 8008 microprocessor, 45 years old</title><url>http://www.righto.com/2016/12/die-photos-and-analysis-of_24.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>contingencies</author><text>Not directly related but just last week I just gifted two Intel 8088 machines including one in a really beautiful case with original &amp;quot;3 year warranty!&amp;quot; sticker, along with other stuff (period disks, Apple LCII, Apple II, SGI&amp;#x2F;SunOS&amp;#x2F;Solaris stuff, etc.) to &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;acms.org.au&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;acms.org.au&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; who are looking for an exhibition location for their huge collection. As a registered charity, space donations are tax deductible and can help meet council public space&amp;#x2F;cultural requirements for new developments. Requirements: Sydney or Canberra, 100-300m2 exhibition space (really 200+), 500-1000m2 storage space (500+ already in use).</text></comment>
<story><title>Die photos and analysis of the revolutionary 8008 microprocessor, 45 years old</title><url>http://www.righto.com/2016/12/die-photos-and-analysis-of_24.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Very cool, as I recall the 8080 needed multiple power supplies and a clock generator and the 8080A made those internal to the chip. The Z80 was usable with no support chips at all and I believe that was the primary motivation for the 8085.&lt;p&gt;When you look that notion of the 8238 you can see the seeds of the &amp;#x27;south bridge&amp;#x27; that was so prevalent in PC design. Intel systems broke apart as &amp;quot;memory&amp;quot; (northbridge), &amp;quot;compute&amp;quot; (cpu), and &amp;quot;i&amp;#x2F;o&amp;quot; (southbridge). That has been a pretty successful architecture and one that ARM would do well to emulate for their non-SoC offerings.</text></comment>