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Re:Over-Extended Metaphor for the day by Aqueous on Thursday December 26, 2013 @12:22PM (#6966935)
Can someone please tell me how Atari created Pong before Intel invented the CPU?

I think I've found a plot hole! And we all know there were none of those in the original 7 day creation story.

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Re:Over-Extended Metaphor for the day by gaius on Thursday December 26, 2013 @12:35PM (#6966997)
The did the whole game in hardware. You are thinking of a computer in the modern sense, memory, processor, software. It wasn't always thus.
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Re:Over-Extended Metaphor for the day by Aqueous on Thursday December 26, 2013 @12:52PM (#6967088)
I see - I didn't realize Pong was implemented entirely in hardware.

Chronologically, at least, Intel's first commercial processor was in 1970 but Pong was released in 1972.

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