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Intersil 6100
The Intersil 6100 family consists of a 12-bit microprocessor (the 6100) and a range of peripheral support and memory ICs developed by Intersil in the mid-1970s.
The microprocessor implements the PDP-8 instruction set. As such it was sometimes referred to as the CMOS-PDP8. Since it was also produced by Harris Corporation, it was also known as the Harris HM-6100. The Intersil 6100 was introduced in the second quarter of 1975,
and the Harris version in 1976.
The 6100 family was produced using CMOS
still military systems in service that were using electro-mechanical relay logic controllers such as "Ledexes".
When the equipment was being replaced in the 1980s, the 6100 was sometimes used; without the military equipment design constraints one of its more powerful contemporaries may have seemed more suitable.
The 6100 family was used in a number of commercial products, including the DECmate line, DEC's first attempt to produce a personal computer.
Intersil sold the integrated circuits commercially through 1982 as the IM6100 family. It was not