It was difficult enticing them to stay and work on a small microprocessor. One solution was to trade hardware, a sim board for example, to colleges in exchange for writing some support software.

You’d think that the 8086 microprocessor, a 40-year-old chip with a mere 29,000 transistors on board that kicked off the 16-bit PC revolution, would have no more tales left to tell. But as [Ken ...

AppleSoft BASIC was built in (in a ROM chip). With a Z80 microprocessor board plugged in, Apple IIs could run CP/M programs, which were the predominant desktop business software of the time (see CPM).

A demonstration board is available which shows the functionality of the 6809 8-bit microprocessor in a hard ware testbed. For this purpose, the microprocessor is implemented into an Actel FPGA.

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/-- Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)* today announced the availability of a reference board for its ...