8008 chips / RAM's

[Jos Dreesen / Marian Capel]

>   Further, DRAMs have always had better density (one transistor and one 
> capacitor per bit, versus, what, four transistors or so?) but I really 
> don't think it's fair to suggest that microcomputers wouldn't have 
> existed without them.
> 

I wrote DRAM, but actually meant semiconductor RAM, so also SRAM.
To put it in anther way : there was never a core based homecomputer.

The i4004 is a controller, at least to me, because it is dependent on a specific set of supporting ciruits (4001,40002 and 4003).
The 8008 is much more general purpose.

				Jos