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From: vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 680x0 are NOT obsolete (was Re: TT upgrades)
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.011111.14958@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 20 Feb 91 01:11:11 GMT
References: <1991Feb8.185446.28594@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <7340085@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> <65500@brunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <65500@brunix.UUCP> mjv@brownvm.brown.edu (Marshall Vale) writes:
>In article <7340085@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew) 
>writes:
>> Hate to correct you both, but every LaserJet HP has sold contains a 680X0.
>> I may be wrong on this (time for someone from HP Boise to jump into this!)
>
> Yup, my LaserJet3 has a 68000 in it (10MHz in it.) ...

I started this mess, and I'm getting sorry for it.  But the point I wanted
to make wasn't that NOBODY uses the 68k any more.  FEWER every year build
COMPUTERS around them.  How much application software do you find for
6809s?  There're tons of them in device controllers.  They're pretty good
little 8-bit processors, but NOBODY builds computers around them.  If ONE
vendor still did, would YOU be a developer for it?

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