> > Trivia: what company made the 16 bit processor that went into the
> > Intellivision?
>
> General Instruments PIC1600.  Wasn't it 14 bits?
>
>
Nope, it was pseudo 16 bits where any instruction that needed 16 bit access
fetched first the lower, then the upper byte in successive cycles. Actually it
was the CP1610. It was darned close to a DEC PDP-8, which was one of the
premier minis of the time. You would have loved the development systems also
-- The storage medium was paper tape! And one had to read statuses, addresses,
etc. from incandescents on a front panel.

I haven't been following this thread, but another question might be: "What
chip was a Peripheral Interface Controller to the CP 1610?".

Tom