When was PIC invented?

[kash]

How old is this PIC programmable logic technology, is it part of
the electronics syllabuse in UK universites?

 

[piero]

in my knowledge during late seventies there was already a PIC
(peripheral interface controller) made by former General Instrument. The
technology was NMOS and masked ROM only. The architecture was very
closed to the PIC16C5x series that appeared in late eighties probably
during 1989.
piero

kash wrote:

How old is this PIC programmable logic technology, is it part of
the electronics syllabuse in UK universites?