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From: floyd@ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 680x0 are NOT obsolete (was Re: TT upgrades)
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.070449.14823@ims.alaska.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 91 07:04:49 GMT
References: <1991Feb8.185446.28594@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <7340085@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> <65500@brunix.UUCP>
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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.) In fact many laser
[...]
>plural?) out there by now and many arcade machines are running off
>the friendly 68000. Just a couple other areas that the 68Ks are in.

Yep, 680x0 chips ain't going away for a long time.  The idea gave
me a chuckle, and this article brought to mind another example.

If your phone is connected to a Northern Telecom digital switch,
well, chances are that 68000's and 68030's are deciding how and
where your digital bits get through the switch.  But that is not
the half of it.  Those intercept messages, like "The number you 
have dialed is not in service...", that is put together by no
less that an 8085.  Not even an 8085 is obsolete yet.

Floyd
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