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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Some MAC and Amiga Comparisons.  aka Marc Blunders
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Date: 19 Oct 90 14:37:00 GMT
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In article <33618@nigel.ee.udel.edu> BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
>   I doubt that Motorola will stop production of the 68020 soon.  Remember
>that plenty of places are still producing the 6502.  The 68020 still has
>plenty of uses, particularly as a 32-bit CPU in places (such as controllers
>and such) that only need a wide memory map and don't need virtual memory
>or the other benefits of a 68030.  

   Surprise!  Motorola recently announced the "68EC030", a 68030 minus the
on-chip MMU and FPU interface.  "EC", "Embedded Controller", get it?  They
also plan to introduce a 68040 version sans MMU (though the blurb I read
wasn't clear whether the on-chip floating-point would be dropped as well).
Looks like another coffin nail for the '020 to me.
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