History of Another Register Post

<p>Finally read&nbsp;<a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-inside-story-of-texas-instruments-biggest-blunder-the-tms9900-microprocessor">The inside story of texas instruments biggest blunder the tms9900 microprocessor</a>&nbsp;although I had seen it previously to it being linked to in a forum thread on The Register. Why it is relevent to me is that early in my career I&#39;d opted for the TMS9900 for a project I was building for my then employer - Questech. This was a digital frame sychnoniser of which many were sold including a number ot the BBC. The use of the 16 bit processor gave a jump on the 8 bit devices that would have been an alternative, although I do not remember the 16 bit address space being an actual problem. The processor did it&#39;s job at that time and the TI development system which would have been one of their descrete component mini-computers did it&#39;s job all well before the PC became available.</p>

<p>Need to pull in all the &#39;intel&#39; on just what was available at that time. The article adds another product that I&#39;d missed off my original list ...&nbsp;</p>