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| | Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The RCA 1802 was an odd beast, extremely simple and fabricated in CMOS, which allowed it to run at 6.4 MHz (at 10V, but very fast for 1974) or suspended with the clock stopped. |
 | | Apart from the COSMAC microcomputer kit, the 1802 saw action in some video games from RCA and Radio Shack, and the chip is the heart of the Voyager, Viking and Galileo (along with some AMD 2900 bit slice processors) probes. |
 | | One reason for this is that a version of the 1802 used silicon on sapphire (SOS) technology, which leads to radiation and static resistance, ideal for space operation. |
| bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu /CIC/archive/cpu_history.html (15782 words) |
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