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FTA: Back in 1975 the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of Ljubljana […] began work with Iskra and AMI to develop an indigenously produced processor […] It wasn’t meant to be a general purpose computer type processor cranking out spreadsheet formula results.

No CPU of that time frame was. http://www.bricklin.com/history/saiidea.htm: “The idea for the electronic spreadsheet came to me while I was a student at the Harvard Business School, working on my MBA degree, in the spring of 1978”



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