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  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2013-02-08 03:14
    Tor wrote: »
    @prof_braino,

    Another "old one" still in production is the 8051.. although not as old as the 6502 (the original 8051 came in 1980), they're produced in large amounts still. Intel don't make them anymore, but others do, and, just as for the WDC 65C02 many of those are in the form of 'cores' for FPGA or ASICs. But you can still get them in chip form.

    -Tor

    I have three rather nice Tini motherboards with the DS80c400 and DS80c410 onboard. I guess they still make the chip, but are not providing the Tini system with Lan interface, a couple of Rs232 ports, 1-wire, SPI and so on.

    The 8051s that live on are mostly with additional internal RAM or I guess replacement devices. Having to add parallel RAM is rather retro in this day and age.
  • JLockeJLocke Posts: 354
    edited 2013-02-08 21:58
    I would guess that at least some of those companies are on the list because their parts are used IN a lot of popular equipment (ie. Silicon Labs). Not that the parts by themselves are so popular or well known.
  • ajwardajward Posts: 1,130
    edited 2013-02-10 21:05
    Actually Chocolate Peanut Butter Ripple should be at the top..

    Pecan praline should be in there somewhere!

    @
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2013-07-04 03:10
    Heater. wrote: »
    lardom,

    You mean "Xerox was the first with GUI, the mouse...It took a while to realize what Douglas Engelbart accomplished."
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart

    Englebart, The Mother of all Demos:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

    Steve was brilliant and all but not that brilliant.

    Sadly, he died today at age 88.

    EDIT: Just heard the news this morning, but Wikipedia quotes July 2.
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