here's an odd little beast: the Mostek 3870. a single...

here's an odd little beast: the Mostek 3870. a single chip implementation of the Fairchild F8 architecture. this one has a piggyback socket for the program ROM chip.

Like 6 April at 22:48 | Open on mastodon.social

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Григорий Клюшников

Don't modern mobile SoC packages do the same thing but as BGA and for a RAM chip?

1 6 April at 22:54

Attila Kinali

@grishka @tubetime Some TI chips from the OMAP family did that, IIRC. I'm not aware of any others (which doesn't mean much).

7 April at 0:06 | Open on society.oftrolls.com

Erik van Zijst

@grishka @tubetime right, modern phone SOCs.

7 April at 8:22 | Open on mas.to

Darryl Ramm

@tubetime

Fairchild "borrowed" a microprocessor design from a typewriter company 🤷‍♂️

Some brief history here: https://www.eejournal.com/article/a-history-of-early-microcontrollers-part-6-the-fairchild-f8-and-mostek-mk3870/

6 April at 23:27 | Open on hachyderm.io

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