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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's??
Message-ID: <2806@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 30 Oct 90 15:55:51 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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In article <42488@mips.mips.COM> crisp@mips.COM (Richard Crisp) writes:

| I also remember back in 1978 or 1979 that Byte stated that Motorola would
| offer a version of the 68000 that had the microcode in EPROM so that
| users could re-microprogram it for whatever instruction set they wanted!

  That actually may have been a plan at the time. I believe that IBM
PC/370 system was based on a 68k with modified microcode, and I heard
that the original idea was to allow anyone to modifiy the engine to
custom applications.

  Not to defend BYTE, but it has been known that a company will plan a
product and then not follow thru ;-)
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.