Example: the “Hello World” of logic problems, the 7-segment decoder. Not long after, Don Lancaster wrote his seminal article (in Radio-Electronics, I believe) on Fairchild’s line of low-cost ...

The 8080 instruction set was then extended to 16 bits, with Intel's first 16-bit processor, the 20,000 transistor 8086, released in 1978. This was the processor that first heralded Intel's ...