how did microprocessors revolutionalize the computer technology ?
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No effect whatsoever. A profound effect. Maybe.
A lot of it depends on what you mean by “microprocessor”. And “computers.” For example, the Intel 4004 had no effect whatsoever on the mainframe or even minicomputer markets. It generated a promising revenue stream for Intel, who pursued the market and introduced the 8008. This bankrolled the development of the 8080. The 8080 had zero impact on the mainframe and minicomputer markets. But it led to the introduction of the Altair computer, the first true “personal” computer. Like most computers, it wasn’t much good without software, and a tiny startup called Microsoft produce a BASIC compiler. And the rest, as they say, is history.
There is a direct lineage from the 4004 to the iPhone I am using to write this reply. This device, which I am holding in my hand, is tens of thousands of times better than IBM’s top mainframes of the era in which the 4004 was introduced. Computers that filled entire floors of buildings, took somewhere between 10 and 30 people to keep them happy, communicated at 110 bits per second to Teletypes with worn out ribbons and “touch” input that built up serious musculature for the fingers. I have 64GB of memory on my iPhone; we ran a computing facility for a major university which had 320MB of hard drive space, 750K of Main memory, and could execute about 200,000 instructions per second, and provided service for about 3000 students and faculty. So, maybe the microcontroller had some impact after all.
A lot of it depends on what you mean by “microprocessor”. And “computers.” For example, the Intel 4004 had no effect whatsoever on the mainframe or even minicomputer markets. It generated a promising revenue stream for Intel, who pursued the market and introduced the 8008. This bankrolled the development of the 8080. The 8080 had zero impact on the mainframe and minicomputer markets. But it led to the introduction of the Altair computer, the first true “personal” computer. Like most computers, it wasn’t much good without software, and a tiny startup called Microsoft produce a BASIC compiler. And the rest, as they say, is history.