What model pioneered personal computing in the 1980s, selling over 20 million of its (then huge) 64k memory machines?
History of personal computers of 2.8 million units were shipped before the TI-99/4A was discontinued in March 1984. Realizing that the PET could not easily compete with color machines like the Apple II and Atari, Commodore introduced the VIC-20 to address the home market. Limitations due to tiny 4 kB memory and its relatively limited display in comparison to those machines was offset by a low and ever falling price. Millions of VIC-20s were sold. The best-selling personal computer of all time was released by Commodore International in 1982: the Commodore 64 (C64) sold over 17 million units before its end. The C64 name
Computing with Memory temporal computing model (or a combination of both temporal and spatial) has also been investigated in the context of improving performance and energy over conventional FPGA. These platforms, referred as Memory Based Computing (MBC), use dense two-dimensional memory array to store the LUTs. Such frameworks rely on breaking a complex function ("f") into small sub-functions; representing the sub-functions as multi-input, multi-output LUTs in the memory array; and evaluating the function "f" over multiple cycles. MBC can leverage on the high density, low power and high performance advantages of nanoscale memory. Each computing element incorporates a two-dimensional memory array for storing