Editing Microsystems International (section)

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{{Infobox company
| name=Microsystems International Limited
| logo=Microsystems International logo.svg
| type=Subsidiary
| industry={{ubl|Semiconductor|Telecommunications}}
| founded={{start date and age|1969}} in [[Ottawa]], Ontario, Canada
| defunct={{end date and age|1974}}
| fate=Folded into [[Bell-Northern Research]]
| parent=[[Nortel Networks|Northern Electric]]
}}
[[File:Micro MF8008R 1.jpg|thumb|MIL MF8008R 8-bit microprocessor, second source of the [[Intel 8008]].]]
'''Microsystems International Limited''' ('''MIL''') was a [[telecommunications]] [[microelectronics]] company based in [[Ottawa]], Ontario, Canada, founded in 1969.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.microprocessor.sscc.ru/comphist/comphist.htm |title=Chronology of Events in the History of Microcomputers |author=Ken Polsson |accessdate=2006-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060515181000/http://www.microprocessor.sscc.ru/comphist/comphist.htm |archive-date=2006-05-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Patterson|first=Anthony J.|date=1974-10-21|title=Microsystem's misadventures prove costly|magazine=Ottawa Citizen|pages=72|accessdate=2017-05-26|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Xq4yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ie0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1077%2C2047709}}</ref> MIL was an early attempt to create a merchant semiconductor house by [[Nortel Networks]] (then Northern Electric).

MIL is historically important as the producers of one of the world's earliest [[microprocessor]]s, the MIL MF7114,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Stachniak|first=Z.|date=October–December 2010|title=The MIL MF7114 Microprocessor|journal=IEEE Annals of the History of Computing|volume=32|issue=4 |pages=48–59|doi=10.1109/MAHC.2009.62 |s2cid=16737817 }}</ref> which was based on the design of the [[Intel 4004]]. MIL also produced a series of early [[microcomputer]]s using this chip, including the MIL CPS-1, which may be the earliest example of a microcomputer system that was shipped in completed form, as opposed to a kit that had to be assembled. Several other upgraded models followed.