Today I would make the distinction between those that are readily end-user programmable (microprocessors) and those that aren't (microcontrollers). Certainly m

Today I would make the distinction between those that are readily end-user programmable (microprocessors) and those that aren't (microcontrollers). Certainly many in this article were originally designed for what now would be microcontroller applications, but the fact that they couldn't then do on-chip ROM let hobbyists repurpose them into general-purpose microcomputers.