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If you can remember when the Intel 4004 debuted, don't forget to take Ibuprofen for your backache. Recognized as the world' first commercially available processor, the Intel 4004 is now 50 years old ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of Intel's 4004 processor, the first commercially available microprocessor built on a single chip. Originally designed for a Japanese desk calculator, it helped ...

Linux is a modern operating system that supports all of the latest technologies, but it's also a legacy-friendly system that dates back to 1991. If it's a computer, you can probably run Linux on it, ...

Computers have been around for decades, longer than most of us, and there's a big difference between a CPU from 2024 versus one from 2014. Rewind the clock to 1971, and you have the first commercially ...

These days we are blessed with multicore 64-bit monster CPUs that can calculate an entire moon mission’s worth of instructions in the blink of an eye. Once upon a time, though, the state of the art ...

The first commercial microprocessor was the Intel 4004, which was introduced in 1971. This device had a 4-bit CPU with a 4-bit data bus and a 12-bit address bus (the data and address buses were ...

WTF?! A well-known hacker has done the impossible. He got a stripped-down version of Linux to run on a 4-bit Intel chip from the early 1970s. Sure, it takes nearly five days for the kernel to boot, ...

Dmitry Grinberg has achieved the remarkable feat of running a 33-year-old flavour of Linux on a 1971 processor. According to PC Gamer, Grinberg managed to boot the Debian Linux kernel on a 4-bit Intel ...

[Scott Baker] is at it again and this time he has built a 4-bit single board computer based on the Intel 4004 microprocessor. In the board design [Scott] covers the CPU (both the Intel 4004 and 4040 ...

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