Newsgroups: comp.arch
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From: ccplumb@spurge.uwaterloo.ca (Colin Plumb)
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.164553.14933@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Owner of Many System Processes)
Organization: University of Waterloo
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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 90 16:45:53 GMT
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The ARM2 (which embarasses a 68020) is about 25,000 transistors.
The 6809 is 40,000.  It still depresses me to think that multi-MIP
micros were in reach in 1980.
-- 
	-Colin