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From: linimon@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Mark Linimon)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RISCs Register sets and PDP 10/20s
Summary: 68200?
Message-ID: <8890@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 5 Aug 89 15:56:38 GMT
References: <550@augean.OZ> <43445@bbn.COM> <3301@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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In article <3301@alliant.Alliant.COM>, werme@Alliant.COM (Ric Werme) writes:
> A Japanese company made a "68200" which was
> patterned after the 68000 but with more general purpose registers.  We found
> that we could write smaller, faster code for it instead of the 68000 thanks
> largely to not having to shuffle data between the A and D set.

Um, there may have been duplicate numbers or a cross-development situation,
but I do believe that the 68200 was a Mostek part.  As I recall my boss
(then of the Mostek SystemGroup, now part of Mizar) worked on the cross-
development tools for it on the VAX.

Mark Linimon
Mizar, Inc.
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