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Re:The First Microprocessor, the F-14, and Me by nom on Thursday December 24, 2020 @07:58PM (#25533197)
For the same reason we call the PDP-8 a minicomputer and the C64 a microcomputer. It's smaller than what came before it.

Then we realized it will continue to get smaller and after nano it will sound stupid so we stopped

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Re:The First Microprocessor, the F-14, and Me by msla on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:41PM (#25586496)
The C64 was a microcomputer because it was built around a microprocessor, which is a single-chip CPU.

As in, not like what the F-14 had.

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