Intel's beliefs about pin count were weird even for the time. See Federico Faggin's oral history (p55-56) for a discussion about how making everything 16 pins w

Intel's beliefs about pin count were weird even for the time. See Federico Faggin's oral history (p55-56) for a discussion about how making everything 16 pins was like a religion at Intel, damaging functionality, at a time when other companies had 40 or 48 pin packages. The Motorola 68000 had 64 pins. http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_History/Faggin_Federico/Faggin_Federico_1_2_3.oral_history.2004.102658025.pdf http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_Histo...