Why did CPU designers in the 70s prioritize reducing pin count? – retrocomputing.stackexchange.com

A lot of 70s era microprocessors were packaged in DIP packages with 40 pins. This was a reasonably good fit for 8-bit processors: 16 address lines, 8 data lines, 2 power and clock are all absolutely ...

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