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From: nigel@modcomp.UUCP (Nigel Gamble)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Home grown RISC, market survey
Keywords: Cheap fast
Message-ID: <374@modcomp.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 90 17:44:27 GMT
References: <1142@dms.UUCP>
Organization: MODCOMP, REAL/IX Development Group
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In <1142@dms.UUCP> albaugh@dms.UUCP (Mike Albaugh) writes:
>   In short, I had a mental picture of "A 6502 for the '90s"

This has already been done, by Acorn Computers Ltd., of Cambridge, U.K.
I think it's called the Acorn Risc Machine, and one of its design
objectives was to be a 32 bit 6502-like CPU.  I think it meets all of
your other objectives, but there are others out there who can give you
more information (are you listening, Roger Wilson (Acorn)?)

Why not just use this chip, instead of re-inventing one of your own?
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