Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: an amusing development Message-ID: <1990Dec3.055824.18403@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Date: Mon, 3 Dec 90 05:58:24 GMT Remember the discussions about how the 8086 was "source compatible" with the 8080? Well, Motorola is following in Intel's wake: its new 68HC16, the 16-bit successor to its 8-bit line of microcontrollers, is "source code compatible" with its predecessors. I wonder if they got the parity bit right. :-) -- "The average pointer, statistically, |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com