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Can someone please tell me how Atari created Pong before Intel invented the CPU? I think I've found a plot hole! And we all know there were none of those in th
by Aqueous 13y ago
Can someone please tell me how Atari created Pong before Intel invented the CPU?
I think I've found a plot hole! And we all know there were none of those in the original 7 day creation story.
- gaius 13y agoThe did the whole game in hardware. You are thinking of a computer in the modern sense, memory, processor, software. It wasn't always thus.
- Aqueous 13y agoI see - I didn't realize Pong was implemented entirely in hardware. Chronologically, at least, Intel's first commercial processor was in 1970 but Pong was released in 1972.