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Picking apart the circuits in the ARM1 – the ancestor of your smartphone's brain

Alan Brown Silver badge
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the i386 traces back past the 8086 to the 8008 and the 4004, if you look carefully.

Yes, there really are vestiges of a 4-bit microcontroller in there.

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