The Most Important CPUs Ever

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Here's a look at some of the most iconic and influential processors ever made.

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[Nielsblog]

Fun topic ideas:
- Realtime operating systems
- Chip/CPU designed for extreme environments, like outer space.

[amosreginaldjr.]

I love his passion when talking about this stuff, please have him do more on “tech history”

[Foodgeek]

Do Motorola 68000 :) That was a CPU ahead of its time :)

[DoctorNemmo]

Therapist: Emo Linus can't hurt you, he's not real

[dan_loup]

The 6502 was goddamn important as well, as it basically started the personal computing.
25 dollars opposed to the 200+ intel and motorola was charging, and being in the KIM-1 computer, that was supposed to be just a demo for the big corps to buy the 6502, but ended up in the hands of the hobbysts everywhere that wanted to have a computer at home, and those expanded the hell out of the computer until you got the apple.

[CommodoreFan]

How about the MOS Technology 6502 used in the Commodore 64, and Apple II line of computers. Then there is the Zilog Z80 CPU used in a great many number of 8-Bit home computers, and both were some of the most important chips throughout the 80's, and very early 90's that brought down the cost of computing for the average consumer.

[admingeneral]

I was around when all that happened real time. For me it seemed like the industry really took off with the Intel Dx 2 66 (mhz) circa 1992 (ish), though I had one of the OG IBM PCs in junior high in the mid to late 80s. Back then the nearest thing to an "internet" I could do was having to manually configure a P2P connection between myself and a friend through a phone line just so we could chat and sort of share files...which for 15 year old in (around 1986) was amazing (I thought).

[walterwallace]

"Let's start at the beginning."
6502: Am I a joke to you?

[scnuzz]

Man who could ever have forgotten the Athlon 64....

[DengekiGamer]

6502, Zilog Z80 and MC68000. Three CPU Families which dominated the Marked outside the PC Realm in the 80s and 90s.

[runnerthemoose]

Where's the 68000 that powered everything in the mid 80's and drove the innovation we see today, Amiga/Atari/Apple/Sega .

[Robert-owbs]

"Or just glued together as you might call them"

Oh Intel... How the turntables have tabled...

[laupert]

6502, Z80, Motorola 68000 series. Would love to see you go in-depth on those 😍

[brooks]

Anthony is my favorite host on LMG. Dude really enunciates well and paces just right. The other hosts seem to draw things out too much for intended dramatic pauses and Anthony just keeps on machine gunning away.

[hdwoernd]

The DEC Alpha AXP 21064 CPU (also running Windows NT) and the series of SUN Sparc CPUs.

[adamsavard]

I think having a more in-depth episode discussing stuff like PowerPC, Itanium, the 68K and especially the 6502, would be a good idea. If we're talking the most important CPUs of all time, the 6502 is arguably the biggest.

[BruceEverett]

Other CPUs?
ARM1 - Energy efficient goodness. There's a story about how the first prototype ran (accidentally) just off of power leakage.
Zilog Z80 - All that scientific calculator and '80s 8-bit stuff.
MIPS R4000 - SGI workstations, the N64 devkit, and the N64 itself.
IBM 9121 - 30 year old multicore madness.
Motorola 68000 - Keep the Macintosh/Atari ST/Amiga nerds happy.
MOS 6502 - Stop the 8-Bit Guy from having you tracked down.

[petervenkman]

I think the Motorola 68000 would be a good one to cover as it powered the more powerful non-PC/PC-clone machines such as the early Macs, Amigas and Atari ST machines.

[Alexander-oict]

i can listen to this guys talking for hours, he knows so much but yet he's so wholesome.

[martineyles]

Let's hear it for the Z80, 6502, 68000 and the original Acorn ARM.