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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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In 1977, he wrote an article for Kilobaud: The Small Computer Magazine describing the “Sublogic Three-Dimensional Micrographics Package” he had created, which brought 3D to microcomputers outfitted with the popular Motorola 6800 microprocessor. “It Microsoft worried that some consumers might view it as a low-cost PC alternative.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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That was the answer Noyce had in mind (Intel was launched as a memory manufacturer), and that year he hired Hoff as a member of the technical staff, Intel’s 12th employee. Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs.

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