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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Fun topic ideas:
- Realtime operating systems
- Chip/CPU designed for extreme environments, like outer space.
Wasn't there a space mission where a probe used a PS1 CPU?
@@ShadowRush2112 not really the PS1's cpu, its just it was also based on MIPS which the n64 uses an enhanced version called MIPS64
I think those would be pretty impossible for a Techquickie. More like a Tech-hot-and-steamy-night.
@@ShadowRush2112 I think you're talking about the satellite New Horizon, which it was launched in 2006, and arrived at its destination (Pluto) almost 10 years later, in 2015.
@@DacLMK Bit like a PS5 then :D
I love his passion when talking about this stuff, please have him do more on “tech history”
"improvements to architecture" old x86 arch was wayyyyyyyyyyyyy better, moden x86 is horrible hacky garbage to program in. No CPU needs 1600 instructions
@@thegrandnil764 older ones did
@@randomtitanium risc machenes have about 50 instructions, so did old x86. x86 has gone downhill
I can listen to Anthony all day long. leather-bound
@@thegrandnil764A'ight, how good does Quake run on a 486 compared to Pentium.
Do Motorola 68000 :) That was a CPU ahead of its time :)
and tell the story why apple dumped the idea of using 88000, and went instead to powerpc
not the 68000 : it's the 68030 that was ahead of its time. The first with a co-processor. for the first time we could render 3d realistic images for architecture & much more
Its what kept the Sega Genesis/Mega drive relevant for so long. Developers with talented coders could make genesis games look just as impressive as any snes game without putting coprocessors in the cartridge.
The 68000 series was great - From the 'first' mutitasking computer - Sinclair QL through to the Amigas and early Apples (before Apple went to PowerPC CPUs...
Fun Fact: The Philips CD-i ran on a 68070 CPU
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.
that was what I was going to say as well!
those two were HUGE back in the 80s. If your console or computer wasn't using one of those two, it was probably IBM-compatible.
The ti graphing calculators still use a modified z80 chip today
@@HK_808 I think the "modern" ones use an ARM chip, but I'm not 100% sure
@@bluesillybeard Yes the older models still sold like the Ti-83 series use a Z80 varrient, and newer Ti-Nspire models use an ARM9-26EJ-S which only tops out at 132 MHz I believe. TI makes a killing off these things, as I'm sure the BOM cost can't be that high these days.
Much love for this post! 15 FREAKIN YEARS!! as a CPU at the top of the market at a 1/3rd the price of the 8086, what's not to love!?
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.
Agreed, you can't have "most important" with regards to CPUs and omit the MOS6502, even if it was essentially a low cost more or less opcode compatible clone of the Motorola MC6800.
I was thinking the same thing!
Not to mention Intel's 8080, and it's derivatives, like Z80. I was super surprised that Gameboy runs Intel clone. And of course Motorola 68xxx, and it's later (r)evolution into PowerPC. Today Power architecture is ahead of x86 in many areas, it's just tightly locked behind datacenters' doors.
@@grey5626 Fun fact, the first generation of SS pinball machines used the MC6800. I keep a stash of them around for repairs.
Well said... Right on.... The 6502 and Z80 were far more influential to the vast majority as they got the Home Computer Revolution properly underway globally from 1980 to 1990 before x86s started to take over the home pc market globally... the start of The Global Computer Programming Revolution.... before that comp. programming was very niche, with some countries having (almost) no native computer programmers. Sure, some business software giants were emerging in the 70s, and games consoles were being developed, but there really weren't many computer programmers at all, world-wide... by 1985 there were 100s of millions.
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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).
LOL, IRC days. Do you think Intel will do the same and pull ahead in the core count again?
It felt like the DX2 was the first standard PC in years. I feel Intel priced the initial 486 line too high and got away with it only because they felt optimistic about the AMD lawsuit and that all the other manufacturers like Apple, Atari, and Commodore were floundering. It seemed like there was a lot of pent-up demand by the time the DX2 came out. Not only did it attract new customers, it basically flushed out all the old 286s and 386s people were hanging on to.
Your memory is a little fuzzy ( a lot like those 5-1/4 floppy drives), the first IBM PC came out in 1981 (remember the "Charlie Chaplin" commercials on TV?) and I bought one. It had the "B" motherboard (the A was what we might call a Beta test today) and two floppy drives cuz copying a floppy was a drawn-out headache with just one drive. When it booted you just got a blinking cursor and you had to master a long command set in order to do what a couple clicks can do today. Like open the WordStar! executable program! Or find out how much memory was left on a drive. Ah the good ole days.
@@trobinson14kc Ahh the brevity trap strikes again. I was trying to be concise. FWIW it was the Pc Jr. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PCjr
that does sound pretty cool though
6502, Zilog Z80 and MC68000. Three CPU Families which dominated the Marked outside the PC Realm in the 80s and 90s.
I would love to see RISC-V.
Your going to hate this but Intel is looking to buy Risc-V and shelve it...
@@wes9451 They must be killed with fire
@@mattthemouse1 No one can stop technological advancement. It’s bigger than everyone.
Yep
@@eckee but corporations can and will try to stop the free and open source movement
Where's the 68000 that powered everything in the mid 80's and drove the innovation we see today , Amiga/Atari/Apple/Sega .
Exactly. I believe the 68000 is the biggest selling CPU in terms of numbers, in the world. It was also in just about every car engine management ECU in the early 1990's.
@@dj_paultuk7052 Yep, also used by early Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, even the AT&T Unix PC used a 68010. The US Navy used 68030s in their submarines until quite recently as far as I know.
Albeit, we wouldn't have had the MC68000 without the MC6800 predecessor, and without the MC6800 the world would never have had the MOS6502 and derivatives either.
It's a crime not to mention the 68k. Hello the Macintosh?
The first true 3D rendered arcade game with texture fill was Daytona USA (1993) and ran on two 68000s with added circuitry to accelerate the graphics. Revolutionary and I love to play that game on MAME to this day. I even tweaked the CRT emulator to display it as realistic as possible on my 5K monitor which can emulate the crt down to sub-subpixel resolution.
@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 which version of MAME are you using? I don't think newer versions support Daytona USA. I had to instead get a Sega Model 2 emulator to play it.
The MIPS "R" series were a pretty big deal at one point. Powering the PS1, PS2, PSP, Nintendo 64, Silicon Graphics workstations, among other things.
still a common instruction set used on routers as well. though modern wifi6 routers is now moving on arm based soc now a days due to the heavy lifting it requires to drive the wifi6 technology. else anything that is wifi5 or below have high chance that it runs a MIPS based soc on it (some of them runs on arm but those are rare and probably found on expensive/gaming routers).
MIPS has powered a bunch of tech. Just not your smartphone or video games. Lots of small electronics lived on MIPS
@@EmilePolka Tbh, you'd be surprised alone by how much the reliability and performance of some routers can be improved by just using Open-WRT/DD-WRT/Tomato etc. The firmware running on a lot of consumer network hardware is 'lowest effort required to make it work at least most of the time' an uncomfortable amount of the time. Plus, you end up with massive amounts more customisation/features.
6502, Z80, Motorola 68000 series. Would love to see you go in-depth on those 😍
Man who could ever have forgotten the Athlon 64....
Or the x2 for that matter. I didn't think multicore was a big deal until I tried one of those.
I was rocking an Athlon 64 x2 5400+ back in the day 💪
I Had One In My Desk Too (good old days)
@@AppleReviews big oof. At least wasnt intel atom
@@DanKaschel i remember being pissed when i had to upgrade out of win2k server .. was the most stable OS from MS i have had (solid uptime 9 months only shutdown to install new GPU)
Obviously the Sun SPARC T3 should be featured! 16 cores, with 8 threads per core! 128 logical cores in 2010! 😁
If you're gonna talk about a Sun SPARC system, the T3 isn't the one to go for.
No, if they want to feature a stupidly big SPARC system, it should be the E10K. 64GB of RAM and 64 cores in 1997. Not 64 logical cores, not 64 threads, 64 *physical* cores. Which is just stupid and insane. It sold for over a million dollars. E-Bay famously ran on an E10k.
One E10k.
With no backup systems.
Yeah so that E10K coming down caused several notorious E-Bay outages.
Oops.
"Or just glued together as you might call them"
Oh Intel... How the turntables have tabled...
Well, well, well... how the turntables....
I love the repeated irony of that quote
Looks like the foot is on the other shoe!
Glue logic:
Glue logic is a special form of digital circuitry that allows different types of logic chips or circuits to work together by acting as an interface between them.
That's literally what the I/O die is.
that is exactly what amd said about the pentium d when it released. it was part of their marketing campaign that intel has "two dies glued together" and that they had a monolithic die that was better for a dual core. if anyone turned the tables, it was intel for throwing that "dies glued together" quote back at them. most people dont remember that it was amd that said it to intel back then.
"Let's start at the beginning."
6502: Am I a joke to you?
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.
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.
ARM: Acorn Risc Machine: a joint venture funded by Apple since the 80s, used first by Apple in the Newton and the iPod later, it now suits all needs for Apple long terms goal of performance per watts.
Z80: Best co-processor paired with Yamaha for vintage 8/16bits sound, founds in many 8/16bit console and arcade from that era.
MIPS: SGI proprietary workstation, Playstation (R3000) and N64/Ultra64 arcade (R4000)
IBM9121: no real use outside IBM mainframes.
Motorola 680x0: The king of 16/24bit, most arcade, console, computer and PDA from that era.
Hitachi SH-2: Sega 1st gen 3D arcade and console.
65C816: SNES and Apple IIGS
PPC: IBM Power derived RISC cpu that beats Intel on every step until they hit the performance per watts walls with the liquid cooled PowerMac G5/PPC970FX, forcing Apple to switch for Intel's new CoreDuo design departing from their previous Pentium4 mess
Intel x86: Stories said the bit endian order being opposite from everybody else was due to a legacy miswiring bug in the original design.
I reckon the IBM 9121 makes a fearsome paperweight. And it's sexy to look at. 600W of heat to disperse and all those pins!
I still need to get my hands on an Acorn A3010. That's still the ARM machine of my dreams.
I was hoping someone would mention the Zilog Z80. 😁
@@vardekpetrovic9716 The Itanium/Itanic cpu was great on paper but forgot that Intel never was and never will be a software company. They never had great compilers for that over simplified design without out of order logics
Let's hear it for the Z80, 6502, 68000 and the original Acorn ARM.
Love me some MOS chips!
original Acorn ARM., the one that worked without power connected ...
the other pins delivered enough to make it work !
These were the ones I was expecting in this video (along with 8086 and athlon 64) but I guess it's a techquickie for a reason
yes yes YES
I had an Acorn Archimedes, when ARM stood for Acorn RISC Machine. Those where the days !!!
If you're just going by CPUs, you could always mention the titans of the UK playground in the 1980s, the MOS 6502 and the Zilog Z80. But the King of all sound-chips from 1982 to at least the introduction of the MP3, the MOS 6581 and 8580 Sound Interface Device (Or "SID" for those in the know), that would make a fun video.
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.
The Itanium would be an amazing story. It was planned to become popular on mid and high-end servers, but ended up failing over and over again
It'd be interesting to see a bit on Cyrix. I had one of their CPUs for a while back in the day.
Yeah my first pc had a Cyrix 486 dx2
Yep, I had a custom-built Cyrix 166+ with like 8MB RAM or maybe 16MB?, I believe, back in college in the late 90's. Was a good little system. Actually, I think it's still in my closet gathering dust. Haven't had a chance to recycle it, or the urge to turn it back in for Win95b nostalgia purposes... :P
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.
He seems like that geek in our friend circle from whom we take suggestions before buying any gadget
@@Shubham-hk6yf I think he's the guy linus asks when he needs real things handled. Like besides sticking parts together.
Just calm, awesome guy. Love seeing him in videos
He is a teddybear! :D
Except he approved the 3080 Ti being good value, compared to the 3090. This video is a chance to redeem himself.
The Z80, Motorola 68000, and MIPS CPUs are all pretty important too.
History lesson with Anthony...instant click
we are all Anthony simps
@@HeatmanMKIII that's so true. Nothing better than anthony's straight forward-ness
@@thetechcorner7204 you aren’t wrong
I'd like to see more on the Cyrix/VIA story, and evolution of LAN gaming from Serial/Parallel (COM/LPT) to IPX to TCP/IP. That'd be cool.
Don't forget SCSI. My wife still reminds me of the mess of 40 pin IDE and 80 pin SCSI cables in my old shop which she called belts.
or the hell that used to be connecting computers together in the absence of a network. null modems were my nightmare.
1:13 Exactly this CPU was inside my first computer. My father bought it in November 1996, almost 25 years ago. AMD K5 100MHz, together with 32MB SDR RAM @ 66MHz, 1MB Cirrus Logic 2D Video Card and 1.2GB IDE HDD. Windows 3.11. What beautiful memories. Now, a quarter of a century later, my computer is thousands of times faster, but not nearly as fascinating as it was then.
i can listen to this guys talking for hours, he knows so much but yet he's so wholesome.
For real!
RISC-V, Evolution of Ryzen and maybe "The Most Important GPU's of All Time"
without ryzen we would still be on 4 cores and 8 threads
@@Miroslav96 Pretty sure that Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC T1 released in 2005 a full six years before AMD FX's 8 cores....
@@grey5626 yeah... The desktop market was full of those... Right... Coo coo
Sad and shocking enough intel seems to be trying to erase RISC-V before the later gets too big and popular by taking over SiFive, the big driving force behind the open source ISA RISC-V. Intel offered 2 billion for SiFive. I really hope that planned takeover is not going to happen. In the past intel again and again played unfair at the market. Some older people might not only remember intels scam and bribery against AMD, who are sharing the pc market today with intel together, but they also remember the story with transmeta. Transmeta was a hope for a big change but was silenced by intel. And today again intel is on an embrace, extend and extinguish mission. It is really time for a change in the cpu market and at least arm is giving intel and amd kind of a competition. But on the long run it is really nonsense to claim patents on ISAs. Those are actually comparable to APIs like Vulkan is. They are used as an intermediate for code execution but not some patent worthy state of the art invention. ISAa therefore have even to be openly explained in manuals otherwise they would make no sense for programmers. Apps would not function.
Edit: RISC-V is not bloated by the way. It is clean and not over loaded by legacy stuff like x86 is. Don't listen to that guy beneath.
Even intel themselves actually translate x86 CISC to RISC internally in their cpus which is not optimal. This is kind of an ugly hack to uphold their ISA.
Anyway if RISC-V gets corrupted by intel, they can not prevent all startups and fresh ideas. There are several concepts similar to transmetas code morphing CPU. VISC CPUs sound pretty interesting and promising.
I think he meant all time passed so far, not speculation about future time... Don't forget, The world is ends tomorrow, we're all gonna die!..... or at least is could do.
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Risc-V is not a CPU design, it's a bloated Instruction Set Architecture standard taken over by chip industry giants so they could make it best fit all their LEGACY architectures.. The more important it becomes, the more competition will be controlled by the big boys, instead of their customers... It was Big Boys copying ARM's model of offering modular solutions to their customers.. Giants getting together to beat ARM, The New Giant in the making - except now nVidia owns ARM on top, so it will be interesting to see what happens there... and Intel will buy the independent company that founded Risc-V in the next few weeks if all goes to plan, which it will....
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Ryzen is nothing new so not really worthy of being 'most important'... But 'most improved clone' would be an appropriate award
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GPUs are not CPUs!.... I find your choices rather odd!..... I'd have included all the 8 bit home micro CPUs during the dawn of the home computer era (let's say 1980, globally)... These are what fuelled the explosion in kids learning to program... This is when computing went mainstream to the max... 6502... Z80.... These dwarfed the number of people who programmed for the x86, worldwide, between them.. Most programmers didn't get to program for the x86 until PCs took over form 16 bit home micros, in the late 80s... Motorola 68000 was more influential than x86 too in that respect, as many more programmed for that platform before PCs became Home PCs and x86 took over.
Core2, Nehelem, Ryzen on the PC side. ARM has been kicking around since the eighties and it was good then in the Archimedes. 6800/68000 from Motorola. Zilog Z80. Sparc/UltraSparc
The Motorola 68000 series was pretty influential and used in early Apple computers. And if you're my age then the Zilog Z80 used in Sinclair micros in the early 80's, along with the MOS Technology 6502/6510 used in the Commodore VIC 20/PET and 64 respectively. And let's not forget Acorn who started a project way back in the early 80's called Acorn RISC Machine who's moniker was eventually was shortened to... ARM, and thus history came to pass.
The Pentium MMX was the beginning of a lot of the hardware media acceleration we take for granted these days. It's a shame it was missed in this video.
MMX is an instruction set right?
MOS 6502 and Motorolla CPUs are missing, they powered dozens of PCs and consoles. Not to forget IBMs PowerPC architecture or Acorns RISC Machine.
The DEC Alpha AXP 21064 CPU (also running Windows NT) and the series of SUN Sparc CPUs.
I have a 4000AXP in my collection :D
You've got to cover MIPS at some point. Being the hardware to power the best CG of the 90's and very early 2000's should earn it some note.
Windows NT was also supposed to run on MIPS
sad that it degrades as a teaching tool nowadays
Mention the Mac 2 team Steve Jobs!
@@kelvinluk9121 The home routers I've played with have used it. One unit at my uni gave the reason they were teaching it as being fairly simple compared to other architectures. I suppose being more open source also helps.
More videos like this please.
It's always interesting to see a piece of computer history, especially when presented by Anthony.
You really should have touched on the Zilog Z80, MOS 6502 and Motorola 68000 series. These were the mainstay if home computing in the 80s and early 90s.
Although they were mainly somewhat niche you also missed the 64bit Intel Itanium CPUs and the Sun Sparc RISC processors.
Intel Itanium was a flop. Overhyped, delayed forever, and underperformed when released.
AMD embarrassed Intel when they released the Athalon 64.
@@MaddTheSane I agree entirely but I think it would be interesting to do a piece on the ia64 in the context of the 64-bit arms-race.
The 6502, Z80, and 68K were all pretty important, more or less running everything that wasn't a PC.
I’d love to see a history of pc gaming series!
Maybe covering Commodore, Apple II, IBM…
Thanks for the journey through all of the CPUs I've used through the years :) Also you have the most wonderful clear voice to listen to. Thanks buddy!
I'd like to see things about Pentium MMX and those extensions to x86-64 that significantly improved performance to everyday users; those that first used additional levels of cache (L2, L3...); multithreading; and more about ARM processors in general.
Or how the first Celeron was a P2 without cache, and just how significant the performance diff was
x86_64 added more registers so it could handle more stuff at once.
How about one about 6502 and the Z80? Those chips made home computing possible, even for those on the tightest budgets. X86 computers cost the equivalent of approx. US$15,000 with inflation taken into account, and with computer such as the C64 and Spectrum(plus many international variations, I don't have a North American or whatever viewpoint, as I wasn't there) being launched at a fraction of the price they really cemented the place of computers in the home.
Motorola 68000 and 68020 chips!
If your console or micro computer was cool in the 80’s and 90’s it had one of these badboys
Quality content as always, thank you Anthony and LMG team
I’d add the pdp-11 line of machines - highly influential on later designs, x86 included.
Indeed, the C programming language began on a PDP11/20 running Unix. Without C, it's hard to imagine how much computing would be different today.
Great video! Just yesterday, I saw a post about the evolution of mobile devices over the past 2 decades and it piqued my interest in the overall history of modern computing so I went on a google spree to get a quick rundown of some of the most influential improvements in computing since the mid 19th century with mechanical adding machines
what about the z80?, that's a very important processor.
Motorola 68k as well
@@theloseph Dont forget the 6502, and if they want to only talk about PC processors then the 386 is one of the most important
We're also missing MIPS and PowerPC/Power ISA.
Yeah. Still very common as wel, because I believe that's what the TI-83 and 84 use, among others. Although, on the fancier ones with the backlit color screen it might be emulated.
You mean the Z80-A. That was in the ZX Sinclair Spectrum models. The Z80 was just the first learning step really in my eyes as it was just 2-Bit processing(2 colours and 4 pixel(2X2) sprites), but the Z80-A was 8-Bit and really fast compared to anything else out at the time. Some of the games even on the 16k, and then the 48k were the ones that got me hooked on gaming.😍
Anthony is getting better and better everyday. This is nice =)
Athlon, Core 2 Duo, Ryzen and M1 are my favourites.
I am still using a Core 2 Duo and a Core 2 Quad today.
@@ThadofOhio lmao can it even boots up with win 10?
Ya I was thinking the same
@@kelvinluk9121 3 of my computers can, but I HATE Windows 10. I use Win7 Pro.
@@kelvinluk9121 win10 works pretty fine on q6600
Honestly, I feel like the Playstation 3's Cell Processor was a really important chip. It was ridiculously ahead of its time (probably too much so). It had one main processor core, and 8 friggin' sub cores (although one of those was for the operating system and the other was locked out for yield purposes). Then 8-core CPUs continued to be used for both the subsequent Playstations and Xboxes. One of the architects of the Cell Processor was Lisa Su, who used her expertise and experience in the game industry during that time to bring AMD to where it is today in gaming. It's kind of the first concept of what was to come.
Motorola 68000 series CPUs. They were in a lot of things, and that would be a fun video to watch :)
Great stuff Anthony I like your explanation of this it's always smooth clear and lock in my attention.
Yoy should have mentioned the 6502 and the z80 ,the titans of the 8bit era that made computers accesible to everyday people in relatively good prices
Damn your presentations are so much better now
keep it up bro
I criticized you a while ago cause you kept asking questions the entire time like you were asking us and didnt know
now that you speak a lot better and no questions
i really enjoyed your video
good job
keep it up
Z80, 6502 and 68000 need mention.
This video is proof that LMG need to make a spin-off channel for Anthony! I love this kind of content!
off topic:
is it me, or Anthony is looking more fit than before? i mean, he's looking fresh
He looks like a butterball, guy needs to look after his body more. It'll be a genuine shame if he ends up croaking because of heart failure.
@@blunderingfool he started training a few months or more ago. he really got better, tho i believe in him and i think that he can lose more (weight) :). team anthony!
During the $5,000 tech upgrade series, when they did his, he talked about wanted to use VR to help exercise and try to get into better shape. Maybe it's really helping him. And if so, I may look at the same thing for myself.
@@blunderingfool i do think he's taking care of it, with a dude his size, progress will not skyrocket. give him some time, slow progress is still progress. i think we can all agree that he definitely lost even just a bit of weight. as long as he is willing to put the work in, all we can do is just support him to help him stay on track :)
@@blunderingfool it’s just his giant brain
In terms of getting home computing and game consoles off the ground, you can't ignore:
* MOS 6502 and variants
* Motorola 68000 family
* Intel 8080/Zilog Z80
You forgot the Zilog Z80-A.
That 16 kilobytes of solid RAM...able...8-Bits to bite...to A Byte.... soft flexible multi-function buttons to caress.....press....loves to play games too, but "poking" and then "peeking" just to see the reaction was pure indulgent heaven.
My first true love. 😂
1:50 - Linux was basically switched over completely within a year or two of the Athlon's release. One of the reasons I love that platform. I've been running pure 64-bit everything since 2004.
How about the Motorola 68000? It seemed to power a ton of different devices back in the late 70's/early 80's.
the pc I'm on now used to be a Athlon 64 x2 and I'm glad improvements have been made to modern cpus
386! Absolutely ground-breaking. Virtualization. If Intel hadn't ditched their old 286 memory model in such a dramatic fashion, they would just be a footnote today.
Core2 chips - those things were absolute game changers. Budget chips you could OC 35-45% higher than their base freq. Fond memories from the build I made with my Core2Duo.
Can't believe you didn't start with the 6502 and the Z80.
(If LTT store sold a shirt that just said 1536 and nothing else, I'd buy it.)
As we learned in the recent VCS video, Anthony wasn't alive when the Atari 2600 was released.
As far as I know, all of LMG are way too young to know enough about the history of their field.
Hi Anthony!
The DEC Alpha was a ground breaking design in it's day. A true performance monster, also ran Windows. Not to forget, the platform that Linux-64 was developed on by Linus Torvalds himself. All this was made possible by maddog. Source, personal conversation with Jon "maddog" Hall.
Alphaserver 2100 running Windows NT Server with quad Alpha's and 256Mb RAM...
@@anthonysibley1021 I remember running robot simulation software with the " x86 translator" software. 1:st run interpreting, after that compiled. That was FASTER than the X86 native. Much like the Apple M1:s today. Just a few year ahead of it's time.......
Please do a history of SPARC, POWER and MIPS.
The 386 and early ARM deserved more than a passing mention here IMO
I really hope RISC-V takes off in a few years.. ARM acquisition by nvidia doesn't feel right to me
Its very bad news. Intel is in the process of buying Risc-V and boxing it forever... We're all screwed.
Why bad news?
@@Eruvalta i think intel wants to shut down risc v before it shuts down intel. too bad... i really thought risc v will do a looot of stuff
ARM is still a subsidiary of Softbank . The deal with Nvidia is not approved yet.
Did you accidentally reply with your Bot account first? Edit: just realized the bot was later, I think it copy pasted your comment.
I've got a few K5 CPUs in my collection. My 1st PC that I actually owned was an Athlon XP 3200+ with 256MB of DDR400 and an FX5200 card, back in 2002. I can safely say that the first few months after I got that PC were the most interesting in my entire life. Gaming felt way more exciting back then, especially with decent graphics.
I would watch a video of Anthony reading just about anything just to listen to his voice. So great. Anthony > Linus Tech Tips crew
@pinned by Techquickiee •n•o•
The "ASCII Red" was active until 2000.
It was a supercomputer running on a couple of hundred Pentium Pros clocked at 200 and later some Pentium II Overdrive CPUs @3xx MHz were added.
I think a story of the Pro and Overdrive (486, P1 and P2) series would be interesting.
Well... You forgot the MOS 6502, Zilog Z80 and Motorola 68000... which all were better than x86's at the corresponding time period...
But otherwise very interesting topic...
Indeed. The 8086 is only important in hindsight, and not because it was a particularly good CPU when it was released.
HELL YEAH!!! Where the hell is the Z80?!? (Where I learned assembly...👍😊👍)Does NO ONE remember the vast number of personal computers that used the Z80, the MOS 6502 or the Motorola 68000 ? This vid seems to be for those born after 2000. 🤷♂️I obviously understand the x86 architecture as important, But where is also Intel's own 4004? (first mass produced single chip CPU) or even the Texas Instruments TMS9900? (a 16 bit proc in 1976!!! Minicomputer on a friggin chip!). 🤦♂️
Apple A7:
64-Bit ARM processor that saw large scale production and the first in a smart phone.
Now we got ARM chips with 16GB of accessible memory, crazy.
Pentium II !!! how could you forget about those cartridges lol
I remember the AMD Duron being popular with overclockers for a few years. I remember people saying that they could overclock way more than usual.
True, if You could not get the Athlon go for the duron and oc it!
maybe do a history on console hardware like their processors or graphics solutions
i386. 32 bit core and io, memory paging, virtual memory and protected mode. It indroduced so many must have features for modern computers, yet most people used it in DOS as a fast 8088. Also 6502, the first cheap one. Doesn’t have too much effect today, but z80, 68k, ppc were all huge in their time.
Sandy Bridge 2500k and 2700k, god those things overclocked like a beast.
I would love to see you cover the oddball, deadends, and the like. For example the Recursiv the first object oriented CPU, the iAPX432 (also an object oriented CPU) that was was failure for intel, but lead to the successful i960. The TMS9900, which was the first 16 bit single chip cpu, and kept all registers in RAM. The CP1600 which was in the intellivision and indirectly lead to the PIC microcontroller.
Hey Anthony, what about the Cyrix based chips?
I used to upgrade customer's computers with cyrix. Surface mounted Intel 386 SX's that you put the cyrix piggyback on top of and they gave a moderate performance boost for a pretty high cost.
I remember all those chips. I didn't know the A8 ARM was the base for the iPhone 4 and original iPad. No wonder this old iPad feels so familiar?
You didn't mention the 6502. I understand, but still... :P
Chips deserving mention:
1) Intel 8080A. I'd mention the original 8080 but it had one small problem. Give it the wrong Op-code and it caught fire. Otherwise the 8080 family was the first to use a general Disk Operating System, CP/m. Based on IBM Mainframe memory model and instruction set.
2) Zilog Z80. Basically an 8080 copy, it ran 4x faster (4Mhz), had duplicates of all the registers, and specialized interrupt handlers including a pin to synchronize Dynamic Ram refresh. Also used CP/m.
3) MOS Technology 6502. This chip was based on the DEC memory model and instruction set, at a much lower cost than an IBM implementation. Since it was the first 8-bit chip that could be purchased for less than $50 (at that time) it was used in ALL the major "Home" computers... Apple II, Commodore, Atari and others.
While starting with the '286 may have more relevence today you cannot ignore the first generation of 8-bit chips.
Did you know that although AMD started as a chip fab, they got their big start second sourcing '286s for intel? They were, IIRC, the first chip to run at 12MHz. Also, NEC made an Intel plugable chip called the V20. Not ony compatable with '286, it could also run 8-bit 8080 code, maintaining a CP/m to IBM DOS upgrade path just by buying the new software.
You know what I would like to see? A video about the benefits of ARM on pc on consumers side and the obstacles on productors side
Agree. That would be a great topic
>"Let's begin today's video... at the beginning"
>Doesn't mention the IBM 704 or the IAS machine
Oh, you kids and your integrated circuits.
EDVAC and ENIAC ftw
Architectures I'd like to see?
Mainly 3:
RISC-V (just wanna see that out of curiosity)
MIPS CPUs (they were used especially in PS2 and N64, nowadays most Routers use these Processors)
And the PowerPC CPUs (they were used in Macs in the 90s and early 2000s until Apple decided to drop Support for them and shift towards x86 CPUs)
I'd love to see them all but also some other architectures I'm not really aware of
me having still having an atlhon 64x2
* well crap *
*F.* Also me still having 4 GB System Memory-
I will continue to use it all my life.
Anthony deadass looks like the real life version of the World of Warcraft guy in South Park.
When I see Anthony, I press the like button.
@pinned by Techquickiee please just stop trying lmao
Intel announced that they are releasing their own RISC-V chips soon, that will make this competition INTERSTING!
Seriously, no 6502 from the c64/NES even???
Anthony is my favourite TechQuickie presenter. Lots of nerd-info without the "PC Master Race" condescension. Keep up the great work!
You better say my name
Oh, thank God. Anthony is the man.
Intel 8080/Z80, chip used in Digital Research’s CP/M OS, the precursor to MS DOS. MOS 6502, the chip in the Commodore Kit 1, PET, VIC 20, C64, Plus 4, C128, 1541 disk drive, 1571, and C16. Also the Sega Master System, Genesis coprocessor, Apple II, and NES. Another chip is the Motorola 68000, one of the first 32 bit cpus, used in the commodore amiga computers, Atari st, and every Mac until the powermac, also some graphing calculators and smartphones. 68k also was an early adopter of the superscalar architecture (macs had hardware multi tasking, while 286 pc’s used software), and a 2 cycle multiplier, the fastest ever.
How could you not say something about the 6502
The Intel Pentium 4 models 662 and 672 were the first CPUs to include hardware-assisted virtualization, which is an essential capability in server platforms today and even sees use in the client market as well.
Anthony is just the greatest guy in linus media group
I like the Johnathan horst guy too
anything by motorola or zilog in the 80s - the 68k was a processor family that was the base for many computers in that era
as for the z80, it also played a huge part in early 80s computing and game console processing - in either general compute or an audio capacity.
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