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November 24, 2015, 12:55:42 AM
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I hope to make around $2000 a month with this next gen baby.
Processor Specs:
60,000 instructions per second
A cache of 8KB.
Can someone please help me out?
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November 24, 2015, 01:15:38 AM
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I hope to make around $2000 a month with this next gen baby.
Processor Specs:
60,000 instructions per second
A cache of 8KB.
Can someone please help me out?
Thanks.
No one can help you... Maybe you should be looking for a time machine instead.
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November 24, 2015, 01:18:26 AM
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I am pretty sure he is kidding.

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November 24, 2015, 08:54:48 AM
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I'd like to see that, since there never was a 4040 - just a 4004 and even CP/M never existed for that thing.
I also don't remember them having cache at all - and pretty sure the 8k was the total memory addressable.


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November 24, 2015, 09:16:59 AM
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I'd like to see that, since there never was a 4040 - just a 4004 and even CP/M never existed for that thing.
I also don't remember them having cache at all - and pretty sure the 8k was the total memory addressable.



Actually, there is/was an Intel 4040. It was an upgrade to the 4004. I don't have idea how much traction it ever got. You are obviously correct in that it never ran CP/M. As you expected, the memory addressing limit was 8K, no cache involved. If you are interested:

http://datasheets.chipdb.org/Intel/MCS-40/4040.pdf
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November 25, 2015, 09:29:31 AM
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Pretty much zero traction, since I never heard of it and I was active in the field that far back.

 Did it predate the 8008 or come later?

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November 25, 2015, 10:35:57 PM
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Pretty much zero traction, since I never heard of it and I was active in the field that far back.

 Did it predate the 8008 or come later?

A little poking around on Google suggests that the 4004 and 8008 came before the 4040, and that the 8080 came after the 4040. Another entry suggests that the 8080 may have been a "sibling" of the 4040 in terms of time. Clearly the 8080 and 4040 were offspring of the 4004 and 8008, respectively.

I never worked with any Intel 4-bit processor. Was the 4004 the one that Intel designed to make a calculator? The 4004 and 4040 look like they were designed to do BCD math.

There are numerous listings on Ebay for 4040 processors and surrounding parts.

It would probably run faster than that SHA algorithm that guy implemented for an IBM 1401 computer (1960's vintage).
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