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I was surprised to find that a VM was used in the Busicom calculator that was the motivation for and first use of the Intel 4004 microprocessor. Wrote about it
by klelatti 3y ago
I was surprised to find that a VM was used in the Busicom calculator that was the motivation for and first use of the Intel 4004 microprocessor.
Wrote about it here:
https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/bytecode-and-the-busicom https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/bytecode-and-the-busico...
- FullyFunctional 3y agoThanks, that was an incredible story and much more detail than I had seen elsewhere. The whole series is a goldmine. Eg. I never knew that the registers in the 4004 were dynamic (ie. a cap + 1 transistor) [1]! [1] https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-strangeness-of-the-intel-4004 https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-strangeness-of-the-...
- klelatti 3y agoThanks so much! It's a really interesting design.