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From: bill@mwca.UUCP (Bill Sheppard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 680x0 are NOT obsolete (was Re: TT upgrades)
Message-ID: <1813@mwca.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 91 17:40:14 GMT
References: <1991Feb8.185446.28594@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <7340085@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> <65500@brunix.UUCP> <1991Feb20.011111.14958@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
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In article <1991Feb20.011111.14958@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder) writes:
>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?

Actually, there is a _new_ computer coming out based on the 6809 - the TC-9
from Frank Hogg Labs (don't laugh, they have a pretty large customer base).
The TC-9 is aimed at the couple of million Tandy Color Computer users who
would like more options in terms of peripherals, memory, and clock speed
than the now orphaned CoCo 3 provides.  Check into comp.os.os9 and you'll
see a fair number of posts regarding the TC-9 (even though comp.os.os9 isn't
the proper newsgroup for such queries, generally).  There are many companies
still developing 6809 software for the CoCo and other 6809 machines out there.
Of course, I suppose we could find a developer for the Coleco Adam if we
looked hard enough...

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